Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Question 637: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs with regard to legal services used by his Department, any Body under the aegis of his Department and any State agency for which he is responsible; if he will give details of the legal services of which there has been competitive tendering in each of the years 2008, 2009 and 2010; the legal firm in each case that furnished advice with regard to any such tendering and assisted in the preparation of tender documents and in each case to detail the solicitor's firm who succeeded in each tendering process, the nature of the work for which each firm successfully tendered and the fees paid for any such advice or assistance to each firm for work for which it tendered. [1653/11]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has not engaged in tendering for legal services or engaged legal advice for the preparation of tenders for such services during the period in question. There are no State Agencies for which my Department is responsible. There are four bodies which operate under the aegis of my Department - the Development Education Advisory Committee (DEAC); the Government Emigrant Services Advisory Committee; the Irish Aid Expert Advisory Group; and The Board of the Ireland-United States Commission for Educational Exchange (the Fulbright Commission). The administration of the three advisory committees are serviced directly by my Department, and no legal advice or services have been engaged relating to the operation of these bodies.

The Board of the Ireland-United States Commission for Educational Exchange is jointly financed by the Irish and US Governments and enjoys autonomy of management and administration, in accordance with the Educational Exchange (Ireland and the United States of America) Act, 1991.