Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 12 November 2015
Public Accounts Committee
2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 3: Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor
10:00 am
Mr. Liam O'Daly:
Let us say one receives legal advice and that advice is that there would be difficulties in the prosecution. A Minister must take heed of that legal advice.
Of course he must do so and he has to make the final call, as such. However, it would not necessarily be advisable to ignore that advice if that was the advice.