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- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: Why?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: Why does the Courts Service deem it necessary now to split that role?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: I do not want to be cutting in.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: They are splitting the roles, but State Street are the people appointed.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: In the accounts that were published for the Office of the Courts of Justice for the year ending September 2013, there is no breakdown of expenses. I have just glanced through the accounts and effectively one gets a summary balance sheet and a summary of income and expenditure, but there is no breakdown of any expenses incurred. Is there a reason for that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: Going back to Deputy McDonald's point, I am referring to expenses within the fund itself.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: The courts have no objection.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: There was a suggestion that the Courts Service would look at the making of periodic payments rather than having very large sums handed out. Has that been looked at? The question boils down to that. Where the Comptroller and Auditor General comes in is that if a fund in respect of a particular individual runs out, it falls back on the State and public funds to deal with the costs...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: Ms Duffy might give us an update on that so that when we are making recommendations as a committee, we do so inclusively. Is that coming in under the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill? Is that the context?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: Where is that currently?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: Ms Duffy does not have a date as to when that legislation will come before the-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: Obviously, it would go back from the committee that this is something that perhaps would be given priority in terms of advancing it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: Perhaps it could be done in the context of a value for money review by either the Department of Justice and Equality or the Courts Service in line with the fact that there has been a change with regard to periodic payments and legislation. This does not in any way take from the work the Courts Service is doing but perhaps it could be looked at the context of dealing with the realities of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: Yes, we could write in the context of the Comptroller and Auditor General's involvement in terms of-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: Generally, the time is probably right for such a review.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: I do not want in any way to halt the Deputy's advancement.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: Does the Comptroller and Auditor General wish to comment?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: Does the committee agree to dispose of the 2013 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Vote 22 - Courts Service? Agreed. I thank Mr. Ryan and his colleagues for attending and apologise for the delay in commencing. Their contributions were well received.