James Geoghegan (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)

On the third case, I acknowledge what Ms Duggan has said about being bound by a court order - I am not asking her to break that - but it was obviously an extremely serious issue that arose. Tusla carried out an external agency report, which cost it over €400,000. The report was subsequently quashed by the High Court. Somebody went to the High Court and said whatever was in that report was a load of rubbish, Tusla agreed with that, arising from the settlement and mediation agreements, and the court quashed it. That was €400,000 down the drain, as it were. Then, another €800,000 in that exact case, unless I am mistaken, was paid in legal costs, presumably to the parties. I do not know if they were the agency's own legal costs and the other side's legal costs, but the other side's legal costs were paid, so we are now up at €1.2 million or thereabouts. Then, the other side got €49,999 in compensation. How does Tusla square that circle? That is an extraordinary sum of money between legal costs and the report, with the compensation being less than €50,000. What can Ms Duggan say about that?