Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Head 53 provides the court shall order the guilty party to pay the office's costs and expenses relating to the investigation, detection and prosecution of the offence.

Head 54 provides the office will institute summary proceeding for offences. We have dealt with head 55.

Part 70 deals with miscellaneous provisions. Head 56 enables the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, to make regulations imposing fees to be paid by a person making a complaint under the proposed Bill. This is for the purpose of meeting expenses properly incurred by the office in the due performance of its functions under the proposed Bill. Such regulations may apply to the rate of fees payable. The Minister may direct the office to pay surplus funds to the central fund where gross income received by the office in each financial year exceeds the amount of expenditure incurred in the administration of its office in that year. Earlier we spoke about serial objectors clogging up the system. Is there a way that a fee would not be a charged the first time someone makes a complaint?