Varadkar warns of tribunal and inquiry costs
The inquiries listed by Mr Varadkar are expected, in total, to cost €115 million.
Mr Varadkar made the comments as he faced questioning by TDs at the Oireachtas committee which oversees his department and the Departments of Finance and Public Expenditure on Thursday. He said that politicians should bear in mind the cost of tribunals and inquiries “because there isn’t a week that goes by that the Opposition, TDs or party leaders, don’t call for an inquiry or a tribunal or whatever”.
“And while they may be merited, we must bear in mind the time that they take, they often don’t give people the answers they want and they cost the taxpayer a lot of money,” he said.Mr Varadkar clashed with Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty who questioned the Taoiseach’s links to Mr O’Brien and criticised the Government’s reliance on the support of Mr Lowry, who has previously been convicted of tax offences.
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