Central Bank legal fee spend up 12% to €7.3m

Legal fees paid out by the Central Bank last year increased by 12% to just over €7.3m.

Newly published figures by the regulator show that the amount paid out to legal firms and barristers increased from €6.5m in 2015 to €7.33m.

However, the Central Bank’s Freedom of Information (FoI) unit declined to reveal the identity of the ‘big hitters’ and what they received in individual fees.