Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

The allocation for the Moriarty tribunal is €3.5 million and total expenditure to the end of June 2011 is €1.059 million. Having published its second and final report, the tribunal is currently dealing with the matter of third party costs. It has indicated to the Department that it is not possible at this stage to give any accurate indication of the timescale that might be involved in completing this task but has indicated that it will probably take quite some time. As a result I do not know what the timescale is or what the adjudication will be in respect of those third party costs. I cannot give the House an answer to that question because I do not know the answer until those decisions are made.

I will communicate with the Deputy today, to demonstrate efficiency to him, about the numbers of personnel who might earn over €100,000 per year but I do not have the information here.

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