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:
It is an interesting question. The arrangement has changed over the years so in about 2001, the arrangement was that they got paid the equivalent of an assistant secretary's salary and they were located within the premises. They have not been located on the premises for quite a while with the effluxion of time and Revenue practice and so on. The current incumbent lives abroad and he is paid on a daily rate and in net terms the daily rate works out at about a couple of hundred days each year. It varies depending on workload because he is piecemeal and he gets paid a daily rate. That daily rate still comes in at more or less the equivalent of an assistant secretary salary if he worked the complement of 200 days.
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