Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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676. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the expenditure by her Department on legal proceedings in each of the years 2012 to 2017, by case name and record number; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2911/18]

Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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Expenditure incurred by my Department in respect of legal fees and compensation is shown in the annual Appropriation Accounts published by my Department. A summary of this is expenditure is shown in the following table.

Details of expenditure of 2017 are currently being complied as part of the preparation of the 2017 the Appropriation Account which will published later in the year following audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General.

I am advised that the information sought by the Deputy in respect of case name and record can not be released for reasons of legal and commercial sensitivity.