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:

Yes. It makes a pitch and that is passed on to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. If the Office of the Attorney General is looking for money and the Law Reform Commission need money also, we would make that pitch for the money jointly in the sense that it does not come out of our budget. It is needed separately so the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform considers the request. The reasons as to why it wants it and so on are set out and generally we support it.