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. Barry Donoghue:
I appreciate that but I was just explaining the purpose of the section that is there - it is probably quite rigorous - to ensure that nobody could say that the office's decision making was being politicised. It is in place as part of the statutory framework so I suppose one has to be careful about it.