Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 12 November 2015
Public Accounts Committee
2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 3: Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor
10:00 am
Mr. Liam O'Daly:
The Office of the Attorney General must be able to choose the properly qualified barrister or the one who will do it. Sometimes, in order to get the best, one may have to pay a little more. There must be flexibility.
In big constitutional cases, there is a relatively small pool of barristers who we would be comfortably necessarily briefing from the point of doing those types of cases but there are not that many real experts.
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