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Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Verona Murphy: Is there room for expansion?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Verona Murphy: Is there an issue with funding? Are we putting enough money into this? Are we getting value for money for what is there?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Verona Murphy: Is it possible to provide those figures to the committee?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Verona Murphy: What percentage of offenders have been given community service sentences versus incarceration? I will come back to the Deputy on that, if that is okay. I have the figures here somewhere.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Verona Murphy: I would like to know on what basis they are given. What are the top offences where offenders have not been incarcerated?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Verona Murphy: Typically from the time a community service order is handed down, how long would it take for a person to get into the Probation Service? Is there a timeframe?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Verona Murphy: Are we talking in terms of months or weeks?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Verona Murphy: Now.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Verona Murphy: What would the normal timeframe be? If somebody was told they were for release on a community service order, would they be waiting for a month in normal times, outside of Covid, for example, in 2019?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Verona Murphy: Is Ms McPhillips happy with the number of officers within the service?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Verona Murphy: Were there people who were never given release under a community service order on the basis of the pandemic whereby the service could not manage that or how did it manage that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Verona Murphy: Could those figures be forwarded to the committee as well?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Verona Murphy: Thank you.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Verona Murphy: I have a brief question on the judicial appointments commission. A little over €250,000 was set aside but the commission has not been formed. Has there been any spend on that to date?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Verona Murphy: I thought the legislation was enacted in 2019.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Verona Murphy: That is fine. To return to the legal aid issue, I am a little inquisitive about the Garda station legal aid scheme. Who sanctions that? How is it structured?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Verona Murphy: The board administers it on behalf of the Department but it is still sanctioned at the Garda station.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Verona Murphy: At what level is this sanctioned? Is it sanctioned by a junior garda or a superintendent?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Verona Murphy: Does Ms McPhillips have any idea of how many cases were covered by that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Verona Murphy: The expenditure is about €1.7 million