Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Independent)
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52. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form, for each year since 2003, the total cumulative amount in euro paid by his Department for non-audit services to companies (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48112/13]

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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My Department is responsible for two Votes: Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade; and Vote 27 - International Cooperation. Payments from both Votes to the firms listed in the Deputy’s question are set out below.

Summary of Payments in €000's

It should be noted that the Department’s Financial Management System for Vote 28 was introduced with effect from 2005 and that data prior to 2005 is not readily available electronically. Accordingly, it was not possible in the time available to perform a complete and definitive check of payments under Vote 28 prior to 2005.

On a related point, since 2007, under Vote 27, Ireland has contributed to a multi donor funded mechanism supporting the civil society sector in Uganda. Deloitte Uganda acts as the financial management agency to the fund. Ireland’s cumulative contribution to the fund since 2007 was €30.98 million.

Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Independent)
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53. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will detail in tabular form, for each year since 2003, the total cumulative amount in euro paid by his Department to companies (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48131/13]

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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The Department generally seeks advice on domestic legal matters from the Office of the Attorney General and/or the Chief State Solicitor’s Office. Depending on the subject-matter, litigation is dealt with on my Department’s behalf by the Attorney General’s Office, the Chief State Solicitor’s Office or the State Claims Agency which engage lawyers to act for the Department where necessary.

However, there are occasions when external legal services must be engaged for particular requirements and I have set out in the table below the total cumulative amount in euro paid by my Department since 2005 to companies on the list provided. Complete financial data prior to 2005 is not available electronically from the Department’s financial management system, and search and retrieval of archived paper files was not possible in the time available.

Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Independent)
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54. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form, for each year since 2003, the total cumulative amount in euro paid by his Department to Senior Counsel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48155/13]

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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My Department generally seeks advice on domestic legal matters from the Office of the Attorney General and/or the Chief State Solicitor’s Office. Depending on the subject-matter, litigation is dealt with on my Department’s behalf by the Attorney General’s Office, the Chief State Solicitor’s Office or the State Claims Agency which engage lawyers to act for the Department where necessary, including for personal injuries claims and other matters. The costs of any external solicitors or counsel engaged for such matters are not charged to my Department’s Votes.