Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 July 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service

9:00 am

Photo of Marc MacSharryMarc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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I am not an expert, but it would seem reasonable to me that if I want financial advice, I would not have a committee comprising nine gardeners on an 11 man committee to give me that investment advice. That is not to impugn the fine reputations and work of those people in their individual field of expertise which is not investment of €1.5 billion. That is a suggestion that Mr. Quigley might look at. Albeit that was expert advice, I suggest that the Courts Service needs to design a system that is a bit more robust in the knowledge that some wards of court have lost a very significant amount of money that could have accrued to them, if things were managed better.