Written answers
Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
Departmental Expenditure
8:00 am
Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 368: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if any legal cases are pending against his Department; the status of any cases in train; the financial implications of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25492/10]
Pat Carey (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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There are five legal cases currently pending against my Department and relevant details are reflected in the following table. In relation to the financial implications of these cases, the Deputy will appreciate that any costs arising will be dependent on the outcome of the individual cases in question.
| Legal cases pending against the Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs | Status of Case |
| Michael Ringrose v PWDI, the Minister, Ireland and the Attorney General | A date has yet to be set for this case. |
| Executive Helicopters Maintenance Ltd v the Minister, Ireland and the Attorney General, Galway Aviation Services Ltd, the Irish Aviation Authority and the Commission for Aviation Regulation | High Court Judicial Review. Pleadings are under way. |
| Executive Helicopters Maintenance Ltd v the Minister, Ireland, the Attorney General and the Connacht Tribune Ltd | Papers lodged with Court by the plaintiff in April 2010. |
| Réalt na Maidne Teo v An Roinn Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta | High Court Judicial Review. Pleadings are under way. |
| Thomas McNally & Marie Reilly v the Minister, Ireland and the Attorney General, and the Garda Commissioner | A Constitutional challenge to section 99 of the Charities Act 2009, which failed in the High Court, is to be heard in the Supreme Court. |
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