Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

Pursuing the issue of costs, the lower scale of fees was announced by the then Minister for Finance, Mr. Charlie McCreevy, in the summer of 2004. He promised that they would come into effect in September 2006. In July 2006, the Government made a decision, announced in a one line statement on 13 July 2006, that the existing level of fees would continue for both the Moriarty and Mahon tribunals. What was the cost of that decision? If that decision had not been made and the lower fees had applied, how much would the State have saved in fees?

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