Written answers
Wednesday, 13 December 2006
Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
Tribunals of Inquiry
10:00 pm
Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 319: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the costs to date for the Flood and Mahon Tribunals including third party costs; the costs for each legal team; and the costs for each member of each legal team. [43006/06]
Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As of 8 December 2006, the overall cost of the Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Payments amounted to €61,345,491.42, of which legal costs for third parties amounted to €6,668,070.
Fees paid to the legal team engaged by the Tribunal are as follows:
| Legal Team Member | Amount |
| € | |
| Senior Counsel | |
| John Gallagher* | 2,860,694.84 |
| Desmond O'Neill | 3,673,673.26 |
| Patrick Quinn | 2,457,887.66 |
| Patricia Dillon | 3,350,015.61 |
| Henry R Murphy | 1,074,026.25 |
| Patrick Hanratty* | 1,460,343.98 |
| Felix McEnroy* | 531,855.19 |
| Junior Counsel | |
| Eunice O'Raw | 2,549,250.25 |
| Annette Foley | 1,094,027.44 |
| Sarah O'Connell | 505,993.28 |
| Adele Murphy | 907,545.55 |
| Fergal Doyle | 730,568.83 |
| Cathal Murphy | 706,035.00 |
| Mairéad Coghlan* | 1,781,717.42 |
| Solicitors | |
| Susan Gilvarry | 1,041,218.96 |
| Marcel Gribben | 413,632.50 |
| Donal King | 497,310.00 |
| Máire Áine Howard* | 974,216.21 |
| Legal Researchers (Junior Counsel) | |
| Emma Dalton | 358,047.00 |
| Helen Johnson | 245,025.00 |
| Thomas Hannon | 256,278.00 |
| Imelda Higgins | 297,297.00 |
| Geraldine Stack | 315,810.00 |
| Padraig Dillon | 146,652.00 |
| Damien Keaney* | 64,501.46 |
| Nicola Lowe* | 57,062.07 |
| Michael Ramsey* | 14,665.53 |
| Total | 28,365,350.29 |
| * Resigned from Tribunal Legal Team. |
Payments made to the legal team are inclusive of VAT, with withholding tax deducted at the appropriate rate.
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