David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The legislation does that. I am wondering why Ms Higgins would have a needed a company to inform her as to what she needed to do. She was employed because she applied for the job, she has a certain skill set, she went for interview and got the job. Other people were working there and with the mandate she was given, she should have been able to do her job. Why was there a need to employ the services of this company and how much did that cost? Did that cost come from the budget or was it a separate cost? Ms Higgins may have applied to the Department to cover those costs.