Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 January 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System

12:10 pm

Photo of Eoghan MurphyEoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Per district per week. The Committee of Public Accounts is not just interested in the issue of terminations. Rather, we are interested in the system in its totality and what revenue might be lost to the State. When we step back from that and look at the significant weaknesses, it is more akin to one in five according to the Comptroller and Auditor General in terms of the system not being robust enough. One in five is an important figure because it is a huge amount of fixed charge notices that are not being dealt with, not because of corruption or anything like that, but because the system is weak. When we acknowledge that and the potential revenue lost to the State, it is important that we have a proper management plan to get from one in five to one in ten and less than that. Deputy Connaughton spoke about the integration with the Courts Service. The Comptroller and Auditor General recommends that the Garda Síochána integrates better with the Courts Service to find out exactly where it led to prosecution, how many cases, the amounts that were raised, etc. Are there timelines for implementing the recommendations of the Comptroller and Auditor General? Is there a person in charge of delivering certain objectives?

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