Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 148: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the amount of money spent on legal aid for asylum seekers in the years 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38437/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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Funding of legal aid for asylum claimants is provided by my Department to the Refugee Legal Service which operates under the auspices of the Legal Aid Board.

The amount of funding provided to the Service for each of the years sought by the Deputy is set out in the following table.