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Chapter 3. The Banking Inquiry in Numbers

3.1 Timeline from introduction of 2013 Act to final Report 2 yrs 9 months
2013 Act passed and Standing Orders agreed

Joint Committee established and relevant Proposal agreed

Context and Nexus Phases of the Inquiry delivered

10 months

9 months

14 months

3.2 Joint Committee meeting days 106
Private meeting days

Public meeting days

Public hearing sessions

571

49

95

3.3 Witnesses called to public hearings 131
Context Phase witnesses

Nexus Phase witnesses

34

97

3.4 Evidence and documents
Public hearing statements

Written only (non-appearing witnesses) statements

Witnesses from whom Material Clarifications sought

Institutions which provided documents2

Pages received from Institutions

Pages relied upon and published with report as Volume 3

131

42

31

15

500,000 approx.

10,000 approx

3.5 Affected parties correspondence 670
No of s. 24 letters issued

No of s. 25 letters issued

No. of s. 38 & 39 letters issued

No. of s. 38 & 39 submissions received

93

457

88

32

3.6 Support staff 573
Secretariat

Investigation team

Legal

Members’ parliamentary assistants

23

18

5

11

3.7 Cost of the Inquiry (€) 6,568
Set up, preparation and establishment costs

Running costs

1,070

5,498


Footnotes
1.   Includes all private sessions from the establishment of the Joint Committee in May 2014.
2.   See Chapter 7 for further details.
3.   Numbers are approximate full-time equivalents. Many staff were on fixed-term contracts of varying duration.


 


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