Peadar Tóibín
Question:6. 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 2024, in tabular form. [5393/24]
View answerWednesday, 7 February 2024
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The historical information requested by the Deputy has been set out in previous replies, the most recent of which was provided to the Deputy in reply to Parliamentary Question 40017/22 on 26 July 2022. There has been no further legal costs or expenditure on legal services since that time.
Separately, legal costs and services relating to independent Commissions, Tribunals and inquiries established by Government are also paid from the Department of the Taoiseach 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.