356 Mr. Walsh asked the Minister for Finance the costs to date for each of the sitting tribunals, including third party costs; the costs for each legal team and the costs for each member of each legal team. [33094/05]

The costs of the sitting tribunals are met by the following Votes:

Questions relating to the costs of the individual tribunals should be appropriately directed to those Departments.

For the convenience of the Deputy the information available to my Department relating to costs for sitting tribunals to end-August 2005 is set out in the following table.

With the exception of the €37,000 shown under the Mahon tribunal to end August, third party costs remain to be determined by the tribunals. It is expected that these costs will be substantial.

Information on the costs for each member of each legal team is not held by my Department. Information on the costs of the tribunal legal teams is held by the relevant Departments, as indicated.