Abuse Inquiry Warns of Cost Blowouts

By Pia Akerman
The Australian
April 4, 2013

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/abuse-inquiry-warns-of-cost-blowouts/story-fn59niix-1226612013675

COSTS and deadlines for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse have blown out before any evidence has been heard, with nearly $1 million spent for each week since the inquiry was announced.

At the commission's opening session in Melbourne yesterday, chairman Peter McClellan warned the timelines for the inquiry were "unlikely" to be met, though legal processes to elicit documents from the Catholic Church were already under way.