James Geoghegan (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)

There are very few cases, and one could probably count them on one hand, where the amount of damages awarded would be €50,000 and the legal costs associated with the case will be €800,000. It is very few. Something terrible went wrong here. It is very regrettable. The witness mentioned transparency at the outset and it is very regrettable from our perspective, and that of the taxpayer, that we can have no oversight in this. We cannot pierce through this but maybe when we get the High Court orders it might give us another line of inquiry.