Written answers

Wednesday, 24 May 2017

Department of Social Protection

Departmental Legal Costs

Photo of Noel GrealishNoel Grealish (Galway West, Independent)
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182. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will request the Office of the Chief State Solicitor to provide details of the spend by that office from initiation up to and including the European Court of Justice and to whom they were payable in a case (details supplied) arising from an investigation of complaints under Directive 2008/94/EC on the protection of employees in the event of the insolvency of their employer and the resultant contractual obligations that derive under the transposition of that directive by the Government. [24840/17]

Photo of Leo VaradkarLeo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The Chief State Solicitors Office has provided the following details of its expenditure on the case referred to by the Deputy.

Brian Murray SC€90,558.30
Eoin Carolan BL€82,480.74
Maurice Collins SC€64,993.54
Nathan Reilly BL€15,277.46
Stenographers fees€2,021.42
Foreign Travel€1,174.82
Travel€1,195.58
General Law Expenses ( Legal costs accountants)€1,753.98
Total€259,455.84

The plaintiffs have delivered a Bill of Costs which is being dealt with by the State Claims Agency.

I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

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