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:

I can get that to the Deputy. That is something we also consider in terms of the time and effort involved in pursuing the debt in terms of our staff's time and in employing taxation and cost accountants for that purpose. I should correct myself in that sense when I said that cost recovery is done in-house. In more recent times, with the transfer of management of costs against the State having passed to the National Treasury Management Agency and the State Claims Agency since last year, cost accountants are involved in taxing costs so that is another cost. That is one of the things we would take into account in assessing overall whether it is worthwhile pursuing.

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