Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 November 2023
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Supplementary)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Supplementary)
Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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I certainly welcome that. The picture painted was that the DPP had been underfunded for some time. That should help to address the gap in some way.
The fees for counsel, as the Minister of State said, seem to be the key driver of the demand-led costs. In 2020, the DPP stated this subhead was significantly underfunded. The Minister of State is saying that is no longer the case.