Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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171. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department, or State bodies or agencies under the aegis of her Department, use solicitors firms (details supplied); the amount paid to these solicitors, each year, from 2011 to 2014 by her Department, or State bodies or agencies under the aegis of her Department; the date until which her Department, or State bodies or agencies under the aegis of her Department, are contracted to use these solicitors firms; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9200/15]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The Department made no payments to the law firms mentioned in respect of legal fees for services rendered to it in the years 2011 to 2014. The Department’s legal advisors are the Office of the Chief State Solicitor and the Office of the Attorney General.

The statutory bodies operating under the aegis of the Department of Social Protection are the Citizens Information Board, the Pensions Authority, the Pensions Council, the Pensions Ombudsman and the Social Welfare Tribunal.

Payments to the law firms by the Pensions Authority and the Pensions Ombudsman for services rendered to them in the years 2011 to 2014 are set out in the following tables.

Pensions Authority