Written answers
Thursday, 15 May 2008
Department of Transport
Departmental Contracts
5:00 pm
Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 104: To ask the Minister for Transport the firms of solicitors or individual barristers which he has engaged on a contractual basis in the past 18 months; the purpose of that engagement; the fees already paid or an estimate of the fees expected to be paid by the conclusion of the tasks engaged for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19176/08]
Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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The following table sets out details of the solicitors and barristers engaged by my Department on a contractual basis in the past 18 months:
| Firm or Individual | Purpose of Engagement | Fees paid or Expected fee |
| Ms. Clodagh Brick (Barrister) | Consolidated and annotated text of the extant provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 2005 | €52,586 (€5,507 still to be paid) |
| Ms. Clodagh Brick (Barrister) | Legal advice on the Minister's powers relating to domestic Passenger Ships under the Merchant Shipping Acts. | €2,710.40 |
| Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer | (1) Engaged in 2006 to provide legal advice to the Minister and Minister for Finance in relation to the EU Commission's consideration pursuant to EC Merger Regulation of the proposed takeover of Aer Lingus by Ryanair | (1) €1,373,523 paid in 2007 |
| (2) Retained in 2007 to provide legal advice to the Minister in relation to the State's intervention in the Ryanair appeal to the European Court of First Instance (CFI) concerning the EU Commission's decision to prohibit the proposed takeover of Aer Lingus by Ryanair | (2) To date fees amounting to €103,000 have been incurred in respect of advice relating to the State's intervention in the Ryanair appeal to CFI. Total expenditure for this element of their engagement is not anticipated to exceed €200,000. | |
| Eugene Regan Senior Counsel | Provision of advice on the transposition of Directives | €12,100 |
| Matheson Ormsby Prentice | Legal advice in respect of preparation of Dublin Transport Authority legislation | €26,630 (paid) |
| Matheson Ormsby Prentice | Seminar on State Aid in Land Transport | €9,075 |
| Patrick Butler, Senior Counsel | Presiding over the Public Inquiry into the Glounthaune to Midleton Railway and reporting on same | €33,275 |
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