Ms Eileen Creedon:

A number of parliamentary questions have been tabled on this issue and all the information is in the public domain. I do not have information on the top earners at the moment. The nomination of counsel is kept under review between my office and the Office of the Attorney General to ensure, as far as possible, that there is a spread of nominations. However, the Attorney General obviously needs to have discretion to nominate particular counsel for particular types of case from time to time.