Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 February 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
9:00 am
Mr. Damien Moloney:
No offence taken. I withdraw from the specifics of the question but say that this office advises Departments on ranges of matters. Depending on how appropriate it would be, given our level of commercial expertise, it would include commercial matters. Deputies should bear in mind that with commercial matters, a bit like complicated specialist fields in which particular firms engage in that we would not necessarily, as a process point that advice is not always internal to the Office of the Attorney General. We would not necessarily have some of the skill sets to the degree required for certain things.
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