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
Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
It is a beautiful proposal to free up the gardaí from going into court to do prosecutions, but I think the costs to the State could be phenomenal if we were to replace the current system. I have no scientific evidence for this claim but I think the cost of what they are being paid relative to what it could otherwise be is very minimal.
Turning to the number of prosecutions received, the volume of work, the throughput, the cost and the staff, I am looking at chapter 2.1, page 14, of the DPP's annual report. Mr. Donoghue will be familiar with the report.
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