Written answers
Tuesday, 21 March 2006
Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
Tribunals of Inquiry
8:00 pm
Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 856: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the costs to date for the Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Payments including third party costs; the costs for each legal team; and the costs for each member of each legal team. [10260/06]
Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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At the end of February 2006, the overall cost of the Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Payments amounted to â¬47,206,948.
Legal fees paid to the legal team engaged by the tribunal are as follows.
| Legal Team Member | Amount |
| â'¬ | |
| Senior Counsel | |
| John Gallagher * | 2,860,694.84 |
| Desmond O'Neill | 3,219,015.76 |
| Patrick Quinn | 1,924,277.66 |
| Patricia Dillon | 2,876,300.61 |
| Henry R Murphy | 690,153.75 |
| Patrick Hanratty* | 1,460,343.98 |
| Felix McEnroy* | 531,855.19 |
| Junior Counsel | |
| Eunice O'Raw | 2,235,255.25 |
| Annette Foley | 910,712.44 |
| Sarah O'Connell | 318,140.78 |
| Adele Murphy | 582,660.55 |
| Fergal Doyle | 385,718.83 |
| Cathal Murphy | 412,005.00 |
| Mairead Coghlan* | 1,781,717.42 |
| Solicitors | |
| Susan Gilvarry | 860,928.96 |
| Marcel Gribben | 292,027.50 |
| Donnal King | 297,055.00 |
| Máire Aine Howard* | 974,216.21 |
| Legal Researchers (Junior Counsel) | |
| Emma Dalton | 228,093.00 |
| Helen Johnson | 139,029.00 |
| Thomas Hannon | 150,282.00 |
| Imelda Higgins | 180,411.00 |
| Geraldine Stack | 181,863.00 |
| Padraig Dillon | 146,652.00 |
| Damien Keaney* | 64,501.46 |
| Nicola Lowe* | 57,062.07 |
| Michael Ramsey* | 14,665.53 |
| Total | 23,775,638.79 |
| * Resigned from tribunal legal team. |
Payments made to the legal team are inclusive of VAT, with withholding tax deducted at the appropriate rate. With regard to the legal costs of third parties represented before the tribunal, to date settlements totalling â¬130,997.70 have been agreed and paid in three cases: Mr. Hugh Owens â â¬44,499.60; Sisters of the Sacred Heart â â¬49,653.60; and Mr. Vivian Murray â â¬36,844.50.
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