Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Independent)
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461. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of legal action against his Department for the the years 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54460/13]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I wish to inform the Deputy that our records have not identified any costs incurred during the period concerned in relation to legal actions against my Department. However, with regard to the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) I wish to advise that INIS cannot differentiate between legal actions taken against the Department and/or the Minister without examining every case file. To conduct such an examination would require the expenditure of a disproportionate and inordinate amount of staff time and effort in order to compile the information sought which could not be justified in current circumstances where there are other significant demands on resources.