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
I would not object to that. Obviously, when people feel aggrieved about an issue, and there are mountains of correspondence about some of these issues dating back to 30 or 40 years ago, and if after a long protracted engagement either a commission of investigation or an inquiry is set up, it may lead to people saying: "If I am to follow this through to the end I need to follow a particular route here". That is why, for example, Judge Mary Ellen Ring is looking at the restructure of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, to have a more effective way of dealing with it. The protected disclosures Act is complicated legislation, so that will have to be examined in the context of probably a serious increase in the amount of correspondence going to various Ministers which will have to be treated in a particular way.
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