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Wed 07 Jul 2008Mahon and Moriarty legal bills may cost up to €1bn
TRIBUNALS:THE €1 BILLION that Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan has said could be saved in 2009 from the measures announced yesterday, may just be enough to pay for legal bills expected from the Moriarty and Mahon tribunals.
The two tribunals have been in existence since 1997 but have as yet to pay the vast bulk of the third-party legal costs incurred. The Morris tribunal, which was set up in 2002 to investigate certain matters to do with gardaí in Co Donegal, is currently receiving claims for third-party legal costs.
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