Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Independent)
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523. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport 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. [48160/13]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Details of all external consultancies, including legal consultancies, engaged by my Department are available on my Department's website: . and are regularly updated.  

The figures prior to March 2011 do not include tourism and sport as these were functions of a different Department up to that point. Local roads only became a function of the Department of Transport in 2008 and hence figures for this area prior to 2008 are not included. Similarly, maritime transport only became a function of the Department of Transport in 2006, hence figures prior to 2006 do not include the maritime area.