Figures released to the Irish Examiner show administration and legal costs totalled €3.3m in 2024, including €2.8m in legal fees.

Those figures include the costs of the tribunal’s own legal team, as well as legal representation for the Defence Forces chief of staff and the defence minister.

In 2025, administration and legal costs rose to €8.26m, of which €7.7m was spent on legal fees.

Legal costs had reached €4.4m by the end of June 2026, with a further €360,000 spent on administration costs.

Those figures form part of the €7.5m allocated by the Government last October to cover the tribunal’s costs in 2026.

Costs are expected to exceed €6m in 2027.

Read full article by Neil Michael on the Irish Examiner website below.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41876054.html

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