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:

I am saying there is a theoretical possibility of widening the pool, which I am being asked about, but at the moment there is no possibility, as we see it, of widening the pool because one is looking at a unique subset of drafters who have experience of the domestic scene, while also having this drafting experience or qualification.

We do look at it periodically and in 2015 when we last looked it in a serious way, we got ourselves up to two drafters briefly, but the second drafter fell away. They just do not last. We have a drafter who is unique in that he is living outside the jurisdiction and has managed to stay with us, but even that arrangement will not last. We are looking at something that is transient here.

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