Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

Is it intended to apply the 8% reduction to fees paid to lawyers engaged in the Moriarty tribunal? We have had questions about the tribunal, which comes within the remit of the Department of the Taoiseach, on a number of occasions in the House. There is a degree of uncertainty about how much longer the tribunal will be in existence, when it will report and whether it will hold further public hearings. Will the 8% reduction apply to legal fees arising from the tribunal?

Is it intended to present a Revised Estimate for the Department of the Taoiseach arising from the reductions of 8% in professional fees, the reductions in consultancy services of the order of 50% to which the Taoiseach referred and the Department's expected compliance with the more general reduction in expenditure across Departments? If so, when will it be presented?

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