Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 151: To ask the Minister for Finance the accumulated cost of court cases taken by his Department in the past five years; the cost of each individual case; the nature of each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27180/09]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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In general, my department and the offices under its aegis (the Office of Public Works, the Public Appointments Service, the Commission for Public Service Appointments, the State Laboratory and the Office of the Appeals Commissioner) use the services of the Office of the Attorney General and the Office of the Chief State Solicitor, for services of this nature. The cost of any cases taken by those offices on behalf of my Department is borne on their respective Votes and is not charged to my department.

The Valuation Office took three cases and the details of these are set out in the table:

I assume that the Deputy does not have in mind the frequent initiation of legal proceedings by the Revenue Commissioners in the course of the exercise of their independent statutory responsibilities.