Written answers
Tuesday, 12 November 2013
Department of Justice and Equality
Departmental Expenditure
Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Independent)
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326. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality 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. [48133/13]
Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Independent)
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333. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide 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. [48343/13]
Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 326 and 333 together.
I wish to advise the Deputy that the following sums were paid to the companies listed below over the period from 1st January 2004 to 31st October 2013.
Year | Arthur Cox | Matheson | A&L Goodbody | McCann Fitzgerald | William Fry | Mason, Hayes, Curran |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2004 | €2,420 | |||||
2005 | €4,749 | €10,304 | ||||
2006 | €50,553 | |||||
2007 | €151,845 | €87,476 | ||||
2008 | €135,379 | €4,432 | €60,500 | €421,063 | ||
2009 | €158,771 | |||||
2010 | €14,149 | €61,295 | ||||
2011 | ||||||
2012 | €532,941 | |||||
2013 | ||||||
Total | €291,973 | €65,289 | €16,569 | €900,983 | €421,063 |
Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Independent)
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327. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality 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. [48157/13]
Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I wish to inform the Deputy that in the majority of cases legal advice is provided for my Department by the Office of the Attorney General and/or the Office of the Chief State Solicitor and as such the costs incurred are borne by those Offices. Furthermore, my Department's computer records relating to legal fees does not allow us to disaggregate the expenditure down to the level required by the Deputy, i.e Senior Counsel, Junior Counsel, etc. To extract such information, as requested, would require a disproportionate and inordinate amount of staff time and effort to compile and could not be justified in current circumstances where there are other significant demands on resources.
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