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- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 3: Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) Joe Costello: The office has done it on an informal basis. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 3: Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) Joe Costello: How long has that been going on?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 3: Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) Joe Costello: How did that happen?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 3: Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) Joe Costello: Prior to that the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution could state categorically that no information would emanate from its office in respect of a reason for not prosecuting a particular case. Why was that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 3: Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) Joe Costello: It was simply a policy matter that was decided by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 3: Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) Joe Costello: Is the office proactive in such instances? In a case where a decision is made not to prosecute, does the office inform a victim's family, or whoever, that they are entitled to have the case reviewed and get a reason from the office?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 3: Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) Joe Costello: So it is not just put up on the website.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 3: Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) Joe Costello: As well, but not just.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 3: Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) Joe Costello: This aspect has been a major bone of contention. Victim's families do not know why the Director of Public Prosecutions has refused to prosecute. Obviously it might seem there are very good legal reasons from the point of view of the Director of Public Prosecutions, but they are very poor reasons from the point of view of human suffering. Now there is a European directive on the provision...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 3: Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) Joe Costello: The right to know is very important for the citizen. The Director of Public Prosecutions may well have spent thousands or tens of thousands of euro on conducting an investigation, yet to me it does not seem to take the right as seriously as the citizen would seem to want it to be taken.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 3: Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) Joe Costello: I know, but the deputy director has said in the same breath that the initiative could be very costly now that the Director of Public Prosecutions is starting it off, and that the office would not have the resources to do so. I would like a better presentation. The Director of Public Prosecutions has recruited a couple of solicitors to carry out this work but the deputy director is unsure...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 3: Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) Joe Costello: A review is one element, but the reason is the other element.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 3: Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) Joe Costello: I understand that the Director of Public Prosecutions will be providing the service on a formal basis only from next week.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 3: Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) Joe Costello: Will a comprehensive service be provided?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 3: Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) Joe Costello: There remains a matter that requires clarification. We need to know how the scheme will operate within the Director of Public Prosecutions's office, how citizens will be made aware of it and whether the Director of Public Prosecutions will pass the matter on to the Garda Síochána and wash its hands of this particular responsibility.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 3: Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) Joe Costello: I wish to refer to a case that is not a fatality case but a drugs case. I have raised the case in the House and others have done so as well. I refer to a notorious drug dealer who was convicted in this jurisdiction, in the United Kingdom and, I think, also on the Continent. The case came before the courts on the last day of sittings in July and a Garda superintendent came forward - I think...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 3: Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) Joe Costello: I will leave it at that but perhaps the Chairman will come back to me.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 3: Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) Joe Costello: Is it retrospective? Does it apply to people who were victims years ago and prior to the directive's operation?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 3: Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) Joe Costello: The obligation will be there from Monday. I have a few questions in a related area. A total of 41% of funding in the Office of the Chief State Solicitor is spent on counsel fees and 37% of funding in the Director of Public Prosecution's office goes on counsel fees. The witness indicated that this largely depends, in the case of the Director of Public Prosecutions, on the duration of cases...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 3: Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) Joe Costello: Is there no way of dealing with such matters now without the jury having to be empanelled, with all the associated time for that? There was a very high-profile case recently - I will not get into the details - that went on for 64 or 65 days and the jury was there for all of it. For the first 60 days, the matters could not go before the jury. How can a position like that arise? Ordinary...