Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 173: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total cost to her Department of the provision of external legal services to the Department in respect of legal advice and legal services in each year for the past five years. [8861/12]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The Department incurs expenditure on legal and compensation costs and fees from the Department of Social Protection Vote and the Social Insurance Fund. The elements of these payments relating solely to legal fees are not recorded separately. The following table sets out expenditure on legal and compensation costs/fees for the period from 2007 to 2011.

Costs relating to prosecutions arising from fraudulent claims made to the Department are borne by the Chief States Solicitors Office. Figures provided for 2011 are provisional.