Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set down the total amount spent externally by his Department on legal advice for each year since 2015; the solicitors firms involved; the barristers, junior and senior, who provided services to his Department for each such year; the amounts paid to each firm or person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14130/17]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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The amounts spent by my department on legal advice for each year since 2015 are as follows:

2015

Conor Feeney, Barrister at Law Junior Counsel €13,591.50

2016

Conor Feeney, Barrister at Law Junior Counsel €16,236

McCann Fitzgerald, Solicitors €1,476

2017

Aoife Carroll, Barrister at Law Junior Counsel €1,230.