Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

According to the rules covering the tribunals, we have seen already that in some cases costs have been issued by some of the other tribunals. If a tribunal is of the view that somebody has not co-operated — I think that is the word they use because people are legally entitled to challenge it, therefore such a challenge would not be considered a delay in terms of not co-operating because people are entitled to do that — it can refuse costs. A few of the tribunals have done that in regard to other costs. I am not sure if this arises in the case of the Moriarty tribunal; I am not aware that it does.

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