Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 210: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport if she will provide an itemised list of payments made to external solicitors and to external barristers whose services were procured directly by the Department and by each agency and body under its aegis in the years 2007, 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010; the reason for each such procurement; if such services were procured through competitive tendering processes in every instance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40946/10]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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In general, whenever the Department requires legal services it obtains these from the Office of the Attorney General and/ or the Office of the Chief State Solicitor. Any associated fee costs are borne directly by those two Offices. However, on occasion and in exceptional circumstances the Department, including the National Archives, may obtain legal services from other sources. These are set out in the table for the period in question.

In the case of agencies and bodies under the aegis of the Department the securing of external legal services and the associated fee costs are a matter for the agencies and bodies themselves.