Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised)
2:00 am
Colm Burke (Cork North-Central, Fine Gael)
Going back on the court dates, my apologies. There were 127 court dates of the Central Criminal Court outside of Dublin in 2019. By 2024, the number of court dates outside of Dublin was 854.
That moves me on to the issue of opening a DPP office in Cork. I assume it has to do with having more Central Criminal Court hearings outside Dublin. There is a provision in the budget for the opening of that office in Cork. When will that office be fully operational? Does that mean that, when it moves to Cork, State solicitors' roles within the county will be removed? In other words, it will all be focused in the DPP office in Cork.
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