Written answers
Tuesday, 24 October 2006
Department of An Taoiseach
Tribunals of Inquiry
9:00 pm
Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 225: To ask the Taoiseach the proportion of the cost of each tribunal made up of legal fees, and the amount of money spent on legal fees in respect of tribunals in each of the years since 1997, under the aegis of his Department. [34557/06]
Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)
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The proportion of the cost of each tribunal under the aegis of my Department made up of legal fees, and the amount of money spent on legal fees in respect of tribunals in each of the years since 1997, is set out below.
| Moriarty Tribunal | |||
| Total Costs | Legal Costs | Legal Costs as a % of Total Costs | |
| € | € | % | |
| 2006 to 30 September | 3,151,758 | 2,682,171 | 85 |
| 2005 | 3,437,023 | 2,788,040 | 81 |
| 2004 | 3,610,026 | 2,712,094 | 75 |
| 2003 | 3,440,954 | 2,409,836 | 70 |
| 2002 | 2,799,057 | 2,263,221 | 81 |
| 2001 | 2,242,361 | 1,640,706 | 73 |
| 2000 | 2,171,921 | 1,678,670 | 77 |
| 1999 | 2,139,665 | 1,446,407 | 67 |
| 1998 | 1,685,962 | 1,357,669 | 81 |
| 1997 | 553,303 | 331,305 | 60 |
| Total | 25,232,028 | 19,310,119 | 77 |
McCracken Tribunal (Dunnes Payments)
This tribunal was completed in 1997 and the total cost of the tribunal was €6,655,332. The legal costs were €865,193 i.e. 13% of the total cost and third party legal costs were €5,657,032 i.e. 85% of the total cost.
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