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. Barry Donoghue:
During that period we delegated more cases to the Garda. In other words, most of the cases going to the District Court are dealt with by the Garda, so there is a framework of delegation. Over time, we had discussions with Garda headquarters and we delegated more cases which we were happy it could make a decision on. During that period, therefore, we delegated more cases to the Garda so it would not have to send the files to us, and this affects the number of files coming to us.
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