Garret Ahearn (Fine Gael)
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Therefore, when the officials came here a couple of weeks ago with the Arts Council and it said it had spent €60,000 on legal fees so far they were, like us, of the view that information was correct. That bill comes back on the Department, so there are people pushing a legal case they do not personally have to pay for, or certainly the Arts Council does not, and we have now found it is double. A number of weeks ago the officials gave an indication they were concerned about the court case. Has this strengthened their concern or do they feel so much money has been pumped into it now that they have to keep going?