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:

If the Deputy is talking about procedures, obviously, we do not know which case it is. I must admit I am not familiar with the case, but we will try to find out about it. However, as the Deputy said, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine made a decision on the receipt of advice, from wherever it might have come. Whether it was solely from the Chief State Solicitor, although it is likely that if it was a complicated matter, it would have come to the Attorney General's office, the Department made a decision on foot of that advice that there would be no prosecution. I will have to find out about it, but the source of the information should be from the Department. We give legal advice to Departments. It is their advice. From the point of view of elucidating or providing the Deputy with further information, it should come from them.

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