Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 February 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 28 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
Chapter 29 - Clinical Indemnity Scheme
2012 Annual Report and Accounts - National Pensions Reserve Fund

2:00 am

Mr. Ciaran Breen:

I do not have the individual figures for particular barristers but I can offer an example. In a catastrophic injury case we currently pay our senior counsel in the order of €42,500 on a brief fee. These were taxing previously, before we did a procurement to reduce our barrister fees, at €65,000 for catastrophic injury cases.