Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Even in the cases where the SCA does the work, they have to reimburse the agency, as the HSE does every year. The State in taking the Apple case to Europe, for example, will not be covered by the agency. That will come out of the Vote of the Department of Finance. Is the Deputy with me? It is not a public liability case. For example, where the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection or Revenue prosecute those caught with the wrong diesel or social welfare fraud and take legal cases, they are not covered by the SCA. They pay that directly. We need to clarify up-front what the agency covers in respect of these Departments because we all assumed it covered everything once a Department was involved and that is not so. We will get that clarification.