Written answers
Tuesday, 25 February 2025
Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Departmental Consultations
Aidan Farrelly (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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753. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide a schedule of all external legal consultation that she engaged in, in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; the general nature of the engagement; if the external consultation resulted in a report and or recommendations; and the cost of each consultant and or company engaged, in tabular form. [7429/25]
Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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I am advised that my Department has engaged in a number of external legal consultations since the beginning of 2023, the details of which are provided in the following table.
| Consultant/Company | Year | General nature | Report/Recommendations | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Roisin Costello BL | 2023 | Referendums on Gender Equality | Recommendations | €1,970.70 |
| McCann Fitzgerald | 2023 | Advice on approach to procurement | N/A | €6,219.86 |
| C. Dowd, C. Varley, P. Brazil (Law Library) | 2023 | Accession to the Optional Protocol to the UNCRPD | Legal Advice | €25,272.78 |
| Morgane Conaty BL | 2024 | Preparation of report for National Centre for Research and Remembrance Legal and legislative subgroup | Report documenting the current legal framework which applies in respect of various classes of records | €7,753.92 |
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