Mr. Peter Finnegan:

They would be far below that. These are major constitutional cases that required very senior legal teams. To explain the representation for the Oireachtas in the courts, on the Angela Kerins case we had two senior counsel, namely, Paul Gallagher and Brian Kennedy. Paul Gallagher is a former Attorney General. We had two junior counsel. We did all the in-house solicitors' work ourselves in the Office of Parliamentary Legal Advisers, so there was a considerable saving on that. We also had two senior counsel in the Denis O'Brien case. That is in recognition of the important constitutional dimension to both of those cases. Where we are involved in normal litigation cases, the costs would be nothing like that but such were the issues at stake we had to ensure that the position of the Oireachtas was well argued by some of the top legal brains in the country.