Written answers
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
Legal Services
2:30 pm
Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Question 913: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht 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 solicitors 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. [1647/11]
Pat Carey (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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I am advised that no legal services were procured following competitive tendering by my own Department, or by the following bodies funded from my Department's Vote Group: the Office of the Commissioner of Charitable Donations and Bequests; the Dormant Accounts Board; An Foras Teanga (comprising Foras na Gaeilge and the Ulster-Scots Agency); the Equality Authority; the Equality Tribunal; and the Family Support Agency.
Details with respect to instances where legal services were procured by bodies funded from my Department's Vote Group following a competitive tendering process between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2010 are set out in the table below. I am advised that the services of external solicitors and barristers were procured in these cases to provide essential legal advice, legal opinion or to carry out specialist legal work where the legal expertise required was not available in-house. I am also advised that no legal advice was sought or fees paid to legal firms to assist in the preparation of tender documents as referred to by the Deputy.
| Body / Agency Name | Name of Solicitor/Barrister | Amount Paid2008 | Amount Paid2009 | Amount Paid 2010 |
| Údarás na Gaeltachta | Brian Conroy | Nil | Nil | €1,512 |
| Ciara O'Callaghan | Nil | €2,250 | Nil | |
| Dáithí Mac Cárthaigh | Nil | Nil | €647 | |
| Ercus Stewart | €5,445 | Nil | Nil | |
| Garrett Simons | Nil | Nil | €2,420 | |
| George Brady | €2,420 | Nil | Nil | |
| George Brady | Nil | €1,823 | Nil | |
| George Brady | Nil | Nil | €4,840 | |
| George Brady | Nil | Nil | €908 | |
| George Brady | Nil | Nil | €1,210 | |
| Geraldine Glynn | Nil | €1,628 | Nil | |
| Geraldine Glynn | Nil | €182 | Nil | |
| McCann Fitzgerald Solicitors | Nil | €911 | Nil | |
| Purtill Solicitors | Nil | Nil | €250 | |
| Quinn Dillon & Co Solicitors | €1,994 | Nil | Nil | |
| RDJ Glynn Solicitors | Nil | Nil | €3,630 | |
| Leonie Hussey O'Brien | Nil | Nil | 667 | |
| RDJ Glynn Solicitors | Nil | Nil | 2,800 |
| An Coimisinéir Teanga | Antóin de Lap | Nil | Nil | Nil |
| Antóin de Lap | €6,899 | Nil | Nil | |
| Antóin de Lap | Nil | €7,859 | Nil | |
| Antóin de Lap | Nil | Nil | €1,948 | |
| Séamus Ó Tuathail | Nil | Nil | Nil | |
| Séamus Ó Tuathail | €4,384 | Nil | Nil | |
| Séamus Ó Tuathail | Nil | €4,391 | Nil | |
| Séamus Ó Tuathail | Nil | Nil | €918 |
| Waterways Ireland | Andrew Crean-Lynch Solicitor | €27,915 | Nil | Nil |
| Arthur Cox | €12,571 | Nil | Nil | |
| Carson McDowell | Nil | Nil | €1,197 | |
| Copeland McCaffrey Solicitors | €36,203 | Nil | Nil | |
| Elliott Duffy Garrett | Nil | Nil | €1,050 | |
| Elliott Duffy Garrett | Nil | €130 | Nil | |
| Elliott Duffy Garrett | €1,767 | Nil | Nil | |
| FJ Gearty & Co Solicitors | Nil | Nil | €1,013 | |
| LK Shields Solicitors | Nil | Nil | €4,880 | |
| LK Shields Solicitors | Nil | €67,965 | Nil | |
| LK Shields Solicitors | €57,300 | Nil | Nil | |
| Lucas Associates | Nil | Nil | €616 | |
| Lucas Associates | Nil | €7,639 | Nil | |
| Mason Hayes & Curran | Nil | €4,485 | Nil | |
| Mason Hayes & Curran | €16,936 | Nil | Nil | |
| Matheson Ormsby Prentice | €10,213 | Nil | Nil | |
| McCann FitzGerald Solicitors | Nil | Nil | €6,508 | |
| McCann FitzGerald Solicitors | Nil | €13,682 | Nil | |
| McCann FitzGerald Solicitors | €7,941 | Nil | Nil | |
| Morgan McManus Solicitors | Nil | Nil | €46,592 | |
| Morgan McManus Solicitors | Nil | €229,595 | Nil | |
| Morgan McManus Solicitors | €48,522 | Nil | Nil | |
| Murnaghan & Fee Solicitors | Nil | Nil | €53,763 | |
| Murnaghan & Fee Solicitors | €30,575 | Nil | Nil | |
| Murnaghan & Fee Solicitors | Nil | €38,515 | Nil | |
| P O'Connor and Son | €11,807 | Nil | Nil | |
| Western Development Commission | McCann Fitzgerald | €12,150 | Nil | Nil |
| Nil | €24,300 | Nil | ||
| Nil | Nil | €5,589 | ||
| Purdy Solicitors | €3,122 | Nil | Nil | |
| Nil | €3,895 | Nil | ||
| Beauchamps | €8,679 | Nil | Nil | |
| Nil | €24,866 | Nil | ||
| Mason Hayes and Curran | Nil | €8,441 | Nil | |
| Callan Tansey | €6,241 | Nil | Nil | |
| Nil | €22,320 | Nil | ||
| Lavery Kirby Gilmartin | €8,107 | Nil | Nil | |
| Nil | €972 | Nil | ||
| Nil | Nil | €2,178 | ||
| Eugene F Collins | Nil | €2,965 | Nil | |
| Nil | Nil | €12,145 | ||
| Dillon Eustace | €2,237 | Nil | Nil |
| National Disability Authority | Beauchamps | €17,327 | Nil | Nil |
| Beauchamps | €7,089 | Nil | Nil | |
| Beauchamps | €1,791 | Nil | Nil | |
| BCM Hanby Wallace | Nil | €7,108 | Nil |
| Irish Human Rights Commission | Aileen Donnelly | €14,520 | Nil | Nil |
| Behan and Associates | €4,574 | Nil | Nil | |
| Brian Conroy | €4,840 | Nil | Nil | |
| €4,779 | Nil | Nil | ||
| Dillon Eustace | Nil | €3,791 | Nil | |
| Nil | Nil | €1,500 | ||
| Gerard Hogan | €13,310 | Nil | Nil | |
| Hayes and Co. | €738 | Nil | Nil | |
| Michael Lynn | €2,178 | Nil | Nil | |
| €1,815 | Nil | Nil | ||
| Nuala Egan | €10,974 | Nil | Nil | |
| €3,630 | Nil | Nil | ||
| €7,290 | Nil | Nil | ||
| P Dillon Malone | €10,611 | Nil | Nil | |
| Patrick Gageby | €17,303 | Nil | Nil | |
| Peter Ward | €6,075 | Nil | Nil | |
| Siobhan Phelan | €10,890 | Nil | Nil | |
| Tom McGillicudy | €13,189 | Nil | Nil |
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