Ms Maria Browne:

It is in respect of where there are court cases where the State receives an order for costs and then it is the pursuit of those costs. They go back a number of years. I can give the profile of the range. We have a cost-recovery unit and a lot of work is put into recovering costs. Obviously, depending on the times it is a difficult process, but where costs are awarded we pursue them where appropriate. There is a high-level meeting that takes place regularly to decide whether costs will be pursued against particular individuals based on the circumstances of the case.

In terms of the age, some of them have been going back for quite a while.