Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 February 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 28 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
Chapter 29 - Clinical Indemnity Scheme
2012 Annual Report and Accounts - National Pensions Reserve Fund

2:00 am

Mr. Ciaran Breen:

We cannot take barristers on contract. The position is that barristers are sole traders who practise at the bar. They specialise in various areas, including clinical negligence, and we engage them on a case-by-case basis.