Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

Deputy Kenny asked about the statement made by the Minister for Finance in July 2008 to the effect that legal counsel to the tribunal would no longer be paid once public hearings had ceased. We had all understood that public hearings had ceased and then information emerged that one further witness was to be heard. If, to all intents and purposes with the exception of one witness, public hearings have ceased, why are legal counsel still being paid on, it would appear, an ongoing basis?

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