Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

The resources are large. It would be necessary to look at what was in the base figure for last year compared with this year. The figure for this year is the full cost figure of the office for this year based on the complement of 175. It does not include the additional staff the director is seeking at present. The Department of Finance examination of that is not yet complete. The Office of the Chief State Solicitor is dealt with separately. It has a claim outstanding which has been going through the industrial relations mechanism all year. Hopefully it will be resolved before the end of the year so that office can be dealt with in the same way. At present it is not included in the figures.

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