Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In terms of actual expenditure on or on behalf of the current Judicial Appointments Advisory Board, the money comes from the Courts Service. It is not effectively expenditure that is accountable in the Justice and Equality Vote. I am sure I will be in a position at an early date to provide the Select Committee with a breakdown of costings from the Courts Service. I would be very surprised if it is within an envelope of €5,000. I will come back to the committee on that.

In respect of staffing of the judicial appointments commission, we are dealing with the office of a director, which will be a director and a handful of staff, approximately three support staff, and with related expenditure one is looking at a figure in the region of €700,000.