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:

This is the issue of the reliance of the office to some extent on external contract drafting. We do not tender for those specific services because the market is so limited in terms of what we would get. One is not going to find that many foreign contract drafters who are expert in Irish constitutional law, as well as having the drafting skill. I might add that if I was just looking for an expert drafter without the experience in Irish constitutional law, I would still have problems but I would have additional difficulty with the double set of skill sets.

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