Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

No, the point I am making is that I have serious concerns about this. I am no expert and this is not my area at all but I am concerned on the basis of representations that have been made to me. The Comptroller and Auditor General has given a very good outline of the issue. I will leave it for now and move on.

I want to go back to the issue of claims. I had intended to ask why commissions of investigation are under the remit of the Department of the Taoiseach but that has been answered. Last week we had representatives from the Department of Finance before us. They told us that the Moriarty tribunal, for example, cost almost €70 million