Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 July 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras
11:00 am
Mr. Michael Culhane:
If I could just clear up the issue of firearms fees and the variation from year to year, the legislation changed and there is now a three-year licence. There is a peak year in which a large number of licences are renewed and then there is a tail-off over the following two years. That would explain a substantial movement in terms of receipts. In terms of the insurance moneys, we do not actually do what the Deputy mentioned. That is a charge that we recoup from the insurance company for administering payroll reductions on its behalf.