Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 June 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts

1:00 pm

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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Sure, particularly in light of the evident success the State Claims Agency has in terms of dealing with the bill and adjudicating on the costs. Somebody somewhere in the Department must inevitably think the cost could be X and because that could be the cost, that money cannot be spent on something else or used to reduce our deficit. This slows everything down.