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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.

Chapter 4. Constitutional and Statutory Framework for Oireachtas Inquiries

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