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

Ms Maria Browne:

No, we do not do that. In situations where we feel that the party is not a mark for costs, we maintain a database of the debt and then we review it periodically to see have circumstances changed because it could be the case that an individual takes further proceedings against the State and there may be an opportunity to use that debt as set-off, if the State is unsuccessful in that case because sometimes there are recurrent cases.

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