Malcolm Byrne (Wicklow-Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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722. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total legal costs in defending judicial reviews of planning decisions involving his Department and/or agencies within the aegis of his Department for each of the years 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63628/25]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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Litigation is dealt with on behalf of the Department by the Attorney General’s Office, the Chief State Solicitor’s Office or the State Claims Agency who engage lawyers to act for my Department where necessary. The legal costs arising in such litigation are not managed by my Department. Separately, there have been no judicial reviews of planning decisions commenced against officials in my Department in each of the years 2020 to 2024 or to date in 2025.

The information requested from agencies under the aegis of my Department is an operational matter for the agencies themselves. I have referred the Deputy’s question to the Agencies and they have responded that there have been no judicial reviews of planning decisions commenced against those agencies in each of the years 2020 to 2024 or to date in 2025.