Dáil debates

Tuesday, 11 May 2010

3:00 am

Photo of Enda KennyEnda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

I will make my point. I refer to the time of the previous Attorney General. There was what is known as an error of transcription in respect of legal fees paid to senior counsel. These were determined at €2,250 but the error of transcription stated €2,500. There was no pay back because it was deemed it would be appropriate, as an exceptional measure, to leave it the way it was. I raised this matter before. One of the tribunal's senior counsel was paid more than €1 million. None of it was paid back. The Government is in charge of that element of what happened. How can the Taoiseach justify a failure to pursue overpayments, due to errors of transcription or whatever when, at the other end of the scale, people will be hounded for relatively minor amounts? At the other end of the scale-----

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