Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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418. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount that has been paid to private solicitors by the Civil Legal Aid Board in 2013 and to date in 2014. [15961/14]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I wish to inform the Deputy that the Legal Aid Board uses solicitors in private practice to complement the service provided by solicitors in its own law centre network. For the most part, private practitioners on the Board's civil law panels are allocated family law cases in the District Court whilst they are also used, to a much lesser extent, for divorce and separation cases in the Circuit Court. The Board also operates a panel in respect of certain asylum cases.

I am advised by the Legal Aid Board that the amount spent in (a) 2013 and (b) up to the end of March 2014 is as follows: