Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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125. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown on a yearly basis of the legal and travel costs his Department has incurred as a result of litigation in the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, the General Court in Luxembourg and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg from the years 2005 to 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23313/13]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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My Department had no litigation cases in the General Court in Luxembourg and in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg from the years 2005 to 2012. During that same period, officials from my Department attended the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg on 17 occasions.

Legal costs incurred by the State for cases before the European Court of Justice are borne by the Chief State Solicitor’s Office, and as it is not possible to disaggregate these costs in respect of individual Government Departments, it is not possible to include them in this response.

My Department has been unable to obtain the full information in relation to travel costs requested by the Deputy in the time available. I will shortly write to the Deputy directly with the information.