Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 March 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government
9:00 am
Mr. John McCarthy:
Deputy Connolly is spot on with her figures. The tribunal's estimate is that the final cost will be €159 million. Up to the end of 2016, we had spent just shy of €120 million. The bulk of the remaining approximately €40 million arising will be in respect of third party costs. A robust process is in place. Third party cost claims go to the State Claims Agency, which-----
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