State solicitor’s office facing criticism over botched deal

A powerful cross-party Dáil committee will accuse the Chief State Solicitor’s Office of costing the taxpayer at least €4m due to a botched building deal in a report set to be published tomorrow.

The criticism will be levelled at the State legal experts by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in a quarterly report which will also hit out at RTÉ finances and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s now scrapped strategic communications unit.

The report is published by the PAC every three months to provide an overview of its investigations and to put forward recommendations on how issues can be resolved.