Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

The Deputy will be aware that much work in a solicitor's office is dealt with by counsel in terms of the preparation of briefs where cases in litigation are being taken and that this may require the employment of barristers and so on. Obviously, this type of work - if one wishes to call it that - is outsourced. The office conducts its own administrative arrangements and legal requirements, as in the case of any other solicitor's office.

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