Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)
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116. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount of expenditure incurred by her Department on external legal advice in the years 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014. [20779/14]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The Department incurs expenditure on costs associated with legal cases from Vote 37 Department of Social Protection and the Social Insurance Fund. The following table sets out legal costs paid by the Department for the period 2009 to 30 April 2014:

Costs relating to prosecutions arising from fraudulent claims made to the Department are borne by the Chief States Solicitors Office.