Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 November 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service
9:00 am
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Exactly. There is also a cost to getting to that point in the first place. I imagine in the vast majority, if not all cases, a garda would have stopped an individual because of a road traffic offence. There is a cost to the taxpayer to get to the point where somebody is given a fine in the first place. The taxpayer would hope that the administration of justice would be done and the law would be acted upon but that does not seem to be the case. The witnesses spoke earlier about why this happening. One of the reasons given was a shortage of judges. Am I wrong in saying that?
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