Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We ask the witnesses to give us a breakdown of the legal fees by category and the amount of the legal fees that relates to the settlements. We would like to see the ratio of legal fees versus the actual settlements because the figure is running very high. I ask for a breakdown of the figure by type. As Mr. Mulvany said, commercial disputes may have accounted for some of the costs.

To go back one page, there is a figure for IT consultancy costs of €2.3 million and a figure for other consultancy costs of €23.529 million. That is a substantial figure and we need a breakdown.