Ms Laura Burke:

One could end up with one in-house person but there tends to be peaks and troughs in the amounts of work. There is a need for a lot of legal opinion which one person will not be able to provide, whereas that resource can be pulled in from outside. We need to remember, when it comes to legal costs, that we got almost €390,000 of those costs back in 2017. The figures are not quite as high but they are recorded in income rather than in that section.