Peadar Tóibín
Question:8. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach the amount spent by his Department on legal costs or legal services in each of the past ten years and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [40017/22]
View answerTuesday, 26 July 2022
Questions (8)
Written answers
Expenditure by my Department from 2012 to 19 July 2022 on legal costs and legal services for a small number of personal cases, legal Constitutional cases against the State, an AIE case, and indemnities arising from cases is set out in the table below.
|
2012 |
€241,675.80 |
|
2013 |
Nil |
|
2014 |
€22,909.30 |
|
2015 |
€3,650.12 |
|
2016 |
€1,630.35 |
|
2017 |
€9,727.05 |
|
2018 |
Nil |
|
2019 |
€888,088.80 |
|
2020 |
Nil |
|
2021 |
Nil |
|
2022 to date |
€248,000.80 |
Separately, legal costs and services relating to independent Commissions, Tribunals and inquiries established by Government are also paid from my Department's Voted expenditure. These include the Commission of Investigation into the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, the NAMA Commission of Investigation, and the Moriarty Tribunal of Inquiry.