Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 24 September 2020
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
10:15 am
Mr. Seamus McCarthy:
It is the Courts Service, Chairman, that we refer to on the point made by Deputy Mac Sharry. The issue was that after a change in the law to allow for instalment payment of fines, effectively, the collection of fines dropped very significantly. I cannot remember the exact figures but it was of the order of 40% or 50%.