Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

Obviously I agree that it is a high figure, but the nature of the various arrangements we had in place was to try to ensure that people who had suffered would be helped legally in applying for redress. We put arrangements in place to try to minimise those costs both within the redress board and externally. We have worked that through and we have tried to keep the costs as low as possible. The difficulty is that the denial or limiting of legal access for people is a barrier we did not wish to cross in establishing this. That is the difficulty and challenge when faced with the legal costs, but it is something we must examine in the future.