Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 July 2025
Public Accounts Committee
2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management
2:00 am
Grace Boland (Dublin Fingal West, Fine Gael)
As a lawyer who has worked in this space before, I know that unless we have someone who knows what they are doing with managing litigation - certainly, contested and protracted litigation - the legal fees will spiral and we will be paying for things we do not need in the context of legal fees. There needs to be much more hand holding by the Department in managing the legal fees. I looked at one set of accounts recently. There were four legal cases in which the total compensation paid in settlement was €250,000 and the legal fees paid were six times that.
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