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
Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I will turn to Mr. Donoghue and the victims of crime. He mentioned the 1,800 requests for reasons not to prosecute. I am assuming that the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions decides not to prosecute and people phone up or send in a letter asking why it did not prosecute. Maybe I picked it up wrong. Was it that 40% of the cases in that 1,800 are sexual offences cases? Did I pick him up correctly?
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