Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 April 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011

11:50 am

Mr. Michael O'Keeffe:

One other important point on the legal fees is that last year, or the year before, we introduced a legal framework arrangement whereby instead of having one company act for the BAI in all matters we now have five or six and any time we have a piece of work we tender for that. That will help us to bring down costs over time, allowing for the fact that the costs in 2012 were probably greater than the norm.