Gardaí use personal emails for work issues

Gardaí have used private email accounts to send and receive messages relating to their work, and the force has no record of these correspondences, an Oireachtas committee has heard.

The revelation came as the Public Accounts Committee discussed concerns raised in an audit of a contract awarded to a company hired to provide IT services to the organisation.

Senior gardaí, including Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin and chief administrative officer Joseph Nugent, appeared before the committee to discuss the issue.