Bobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have one question on legal costs. I was going to ask more but my time is up. Awards came to €492,000 in 2017 but the legal costs were €1 million. That does not add up. The legal costs were double what the awards were. Why would that be? How can the witnesses stand over it? It sounds incredible and sounds like an extremely large sum of money. I am sure some procedures could be put in place. For example, with whiplash, a court will only give so much for a whiplash.