Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 30 June 2016
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised)
9:00 am
Michael D'Arcy (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Should an office be established for carrying out inquiries and replace the ad hocapproach under which the Fennelly, IBRC and Guerin inquiries came under the Department of the Taoiseach? Some Members spent nearly two years working on the banking inquiry. Would it not be preferable to have a specific body with responsibilities for inquiries? Of the €3.5 million allocated to commissions of inquiry this year, €157,000 was spent on the Guerin report which was essentially contradicted by the O'Higgins report.
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