Departmental Legal Costs

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 3 March 2015

Tuesday, 3 March 2015

Questions (301)

Billy Kelleher

Question:

301. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Defence if his Department, or State bodies or agencies under the aegis of his Department, use solicitors firms (details supplied); the amount paid to these solicitors each year from 2011 to 2014 by his Department, or State bodies or agencies under the aegis of his Department; the date until which his Department, or State bodies or agencies under the aegis of his Department, are contracted to use these solicitors firms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9191/15]

Written answers

Minister for Defence

The Defence Organisation, which includes Civil Servants, Military personnel, and Civilian Employees attached to military installations, has not engaged the services of the solicitor firms named by the Deputy in the period from 2011 to 2014.

The State Boards under the aegis of the Department of Defence when the Government took office were the Civil Defence Board, the Army Pensions Board and the Board of Coiste an Asgard. The solicitor firms named by the Deputy were not engaged by these State Boards during the period referred to by the Deputy.