Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 February 2017
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised)
11:10 am
Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Deputy Pearse Doherty raised this the other day in the Dáil, and rightly so. I have asked for a report on it, particularly regarding the areas of cost saving he mentioned. His is a very valid point, given the fact that there is very little restraint on full, open public inquiries and the costs that arise in respect of them. There was the question of a permanent inspectorate for public inquiries, on which the Law Reform Commission reported in 2005. This morning we also considered the implications of the protected disclosures legislation, which is quite complex, and in respect of which Ministers are now receiving substantial amounts of correspondence. I have asked for a report on the very points Deputy Doherty raised last week in the Dáil and I will bring it to Cabinet when I get it.
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