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Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: No service. Excuse me, I beg the Commissioner's pardon, I am sorry.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: It does not actually. It comes up in court in that instance.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Yes, the case is listed in court but struck out.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I am sorry, I beg the Commissioner's pardon. Yes, the non-service of summons.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: The summons is not served so it is struck out. Does the garda still have to appear in court before it being struck out?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: If it is struck, it is listed in the Courts Service, but then when it comes up it is merely struck out. Are there no proceedings in court for getting around it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Commissioner for the clarification.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Will the first report be from 30 August last year to 30 August this year or will it be the end of the calendar year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I want to be sure of the kind of detail we can expect to see in the future so that the Comptroller and Auditor General would not need to do another exercise like he did. Can we expect to see, for example, the number of cases that were struck out because no summons was issued? Can we expect to see a decrease in that number to compare against-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: In the case of companies, 49%, one in two, of those summons were not served to companies. Each year with this report we would like to see that figure reducing. Can we expect to see that level of detail in the report?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Of course. However, when we look back to when these issues were first raised regarding the system itself and while we can talk about things that were implemented, without seeing a plan with indicators and timelines and whether they were met, it is difficult to judge what has happened since then. If we were to look at this system again I would like to be able to judge if we were still at one...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: On that point, does the Commissioner have a target he wants to hit to reduce from 3,000? Obviously we would all love to be at zero, but we need to be realistic.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: What is the timeline for getting to zero then?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Does the Commissioner have a plan to try to get to zero? It is one thing to say we want to get to zero, but it is another thing to lay out a 24-month process, for example, with reviews and recommendations arising from that to further the Commissioner's goals of getting to zero.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: So we should expect significant progress by the time of the first report.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: We are not talking about some movement; we are talking about getting to zero in a plan. I do not think it is possible to get to zero because there will always be some degree of human error.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I am talking about an objective we all want to achieve, which is a better system in which people can have faith. We should have a system that collects the revenue that should be collected for the State and imposes the penalty on the individuals for the law they have broken. However, we need to see how we get there or else we could be here in 12 months still with 2,000 statute-barred cases...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: While I take that point, the great thing about the Comptroller and Auditor General's report is that it is so detailed and has accurate numbers so that we could see that, for example, 3,000 cases could not be pursued owing to the late entry of data. We could then measure against that 3,000 so that if a year later it was only at 2,000 we might be wondering why it is not at zero and the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I am not just talking about the companies; I am talking about the different areas of the report that were highlighted.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I am talking about the 3,000 cases that were not pursued due to late entry of data, the 92,000 cases that were struck out because no summons was issued - I am talking about every aspect.