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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.
Chapter 4. Constitutional and Statutory Framework for Oireachtas Inquiries