Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The matter needs to be escalated further.

I refer to page 130 of the report, which details poor box allocations for the year. The Law Reform Commission raised the possibility of reforming the poor box system more than a decade ago. Legislation in that regard was in train. In each of the local districts, a person who committed an offence goes into his or her local court and the money is paid into an account. Does each district have a separate account to hold the poor box fund or is it held in a universal fund covering the 23 districts and the Dublin metropolitan region?