Split avoided as PAC to hear from Garda whistleblower

The Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee has agreed to go ahead with plans to hear from a Garda whistleblower in an agreement that saw off a potentially damaging split among its members.

Serving Garda, Maurice McCabe, will appear before the committee tomorrow afternoon, two months after he handed them a dossier of files which he claims shines a light on how millions of euro have been lost to the state through a failure to properly implement the penalty points system.

He will give his evidence in a private meeting, based on his own legal advice, as part of the committee’s inquiry into whether weaknesses and controls in the system resulted in a loss to the exchequer.