Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 February 2022
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised)
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
It kind of appears that there is no investigation. It appears that there was an announcement of an investigation because what happened was completely and utterly wrong and because it hurt many victims at that time.
We are dealing with the Estimates here. If the Secretary General has spent a part of his time over the past year and a half investigating this matter, there will be a cost to that, just as would be the case if we were to put in a freedom of information, FOI, request to look for documentation. It would tell us that we would have to pay €300, because the FOI will take up however many of a person's hours. Can the Taoiseach inform this committee, as part of the Estimates, how many man-hours or how many work hours has the Secretary General put into this investigation? How many people and documents were scanned as the output - which is part of the Estimates process as well - has happened over the past year and a half?
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