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- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Peter Burke: This issue is at crisis level.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Peter Burke: This goes to the core of the administration of justice. If a court imposes a fine on a perpetrator but he or she does not pay his or her debt to society, the justice system is not working.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Peter Burke: It is more than a difficulty.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Peter Burke: The matter needs to be escalated further. I refer to page 130 of the report, which details poor box allocations for the year. The Law Reform Commission raised the possibility of reforming the poor box system more than a decade ago. Legislation in that regard was in train. In each of the local districts, a person who committed an offence goes into his or her local court and the money is...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Peter Burke: How is it managed? If a judge directs the payment of a sum to a worthy cause, does the Courts Service write a cheque to cover it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Peter Burke: Has the Courts Service raised any risk assessment issues in that regard?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Peter Burke: Mr. Mullan stated that the Courts Service internal audit is robust. Would it surprise him to learn that district 17 accounted for 25% of all poor box allocations directed in 2018?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Peter Burke: I understand that. I am asking how it is managed. How does the Courts Service escalate concerns regarding how money is issued or spent? I acknowledge it is a matter for the Judiciary to make a determination in that regard but in the context of how the Courts Service manages processes, it is obliged to raise any concerns it has regarding how the money is allocated.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Peter Burke: Tralee.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Peter Burke: I understand that, but it seems to me that-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Peter Burke: Has the Courts Service recommended that the law be changed?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Peter Burke: I need to judge how the Courts Service is managed and how it escalates concerns. I accept that use of the poor box is at the discretion of judges, but the court in Ennis accounted for €3,750 while the court in Tralee accounted for almost €500,000. A court in a small rural area is allocating more than the court in Tallaght, which is in the Dublin metropolitan region. That...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Peter Burke: I am not casting any aspersions on any individual. Based on good audit practice, if any one individual is directing control over where a fund should go, there is no connected-persons assessments of where it should go. There is no risk assessment carried out in terms of the funds. That is a gaping hole in terms of the management and operation of the process.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Peter Burke: I am not doubting that. However, like the debt, that is clearly not working. It is the job of the Courts Service to escalate these matters. If the Courts Service is managing it, it needs to raise queries on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Peter Burke: I recently raised here the disqualification of drivers and driver licences that were surrendered. In 2011, 2012 and 2013 only 6% to 7% of those disqualified through the courts handed back their licences. In response to a parliamentary question, the CEO of the Road Safety Authority, RSA, advised that the RSA and the Courts Service were engaged in an exercise to reconcile data that involves...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Peter Burke: If there were a rate of in excess of 80%, I might give Mr. Mullan some leeway. However, when the rate is only 6% or 7% it indicates that for some of the years on foot of a District Court order to surrender their licence, only 6% of those people actually surrendered their licence. While there can be some overlap with individuals reaching the threshold of penalty points and there can be...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Peter Burke: It is 1% in relation to what?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Peter Burke: It has issued figures showing that over a six-year period only 12% of drivers, who were convicted and required to hand in their licence, handed in their licence. If the Courts Service got it to within 1%, Mr. Mullan is saying that the RSA figures are correct.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Peter Burke: There is a significant difference between the RSA figures and the Courts Service figures.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Peter Burke: It is more than 1%.