John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Can you give us a breakdown of all that activity? It is not just one Department. It is the Chief State Solicitor's office going for counsel opinion and going back to the Department. I am trying to find out how many cases were referred to the Chief State Solicitor's office. In how many of those cases was counsel opinion sought? How many cases thereafter did the Department decide to go ahead with? I am trying to define the cost and yet neither the Department nor the Chief State Solicitor's office has a very definite overall cost of what these cases ran to in the course of time.