Committee Reports::Interim Report No. 02 - Appropriation Accounts 1993::13 May, 1994::Appendix


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APPENDIX 4

DÁIL ÉIREANN

Extract from Late, Late Show 13 May 94

Joe Duffy: The Scott Inquiry was a public inquiry like our Beef Tribunal. If you, as a QC, had worked at the Scott Inquiry in Britain, how much would you have been paid per day?

Michael Mansfield: The counsel representing the Inquiry has been receiving something in the region of £600 per day. I don’t get that.

J.D: If you were to move to Ireland, which I suggest you do very quickly, do you know how much you would get at a similar inquiry in Ireland?

M.M: I have no idea.

J.D: £1800 per day.

M.M: I’ll be castigated for this but I think it is obscene. I look back in England again there are 2 (or) 3 million unemployed, 11 million low paid, they are closing hospitals, they are closing schools, welfare rights are going down the tube, there is no way people should be earning, I’m afraid, that kind of money. I’ve always said, I am a socialist, I believe there has to be a redistribution of wealth. I’m against the way in which certain people cream off.