One lawyer received €18,223, including Vat, for seven days’ work at the Oireachtas banking inquiry in April and May of this year.

The former chairman of Anglo Alan Dukes and its former Chief Executive Mike Aynsley are the final witnesses at the inquiry before a month-long break.

A state group set up to protect public funds was kept out of the room on guarantee night despite being completely opposed to a blanket bank protection and warning Anglo was “an accident waiting to happen” for over a year.