Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 January 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System

11:10 am

Mr. John O'Mahoney:

As the Commissioner said, it is obviously very difficult to clearly identify a connection unless somebody declares that he or she is a family member. That is a difficulty that we had in coming to our determination. With friends and family, the name does not necessarily mean anything. Our examination found seven cases involving identifiable family members. We examined those seven cases in detail and found that the people who terminated were not family members. We did not find any family member terminating for a family member.