In general, whenever the Department requires legal services, it obtains these from the Office of the Attorney General and/or the Office of the Chief State Solicitor. Any associated fee costs are borne directly by those two Offices.
However, on occasion and in exceptional circumstances, the Department, including the National Archives, may obtain legal services from other sources. In each of the years since 2002 (the year in which the predecessor Department of my current Department was established), the fee costs associated with such other legal services are as set out in tabular form.
The expenditure in 2008 and later relates primarily to legal fee costs associated with the specialised and complex Public Private Partnership processes to redevelop both the National Concert Hall and the National Theatre. In the case of the agencies under the aegis of the Department, the securing of external legal services and the associated fee costs are a matter for the agencies themselves however I have requested the relevant information from the Agencies and will forward it to the Deputy.
Year
|
20021
|
2003
|
2004
|
2005
|
2006
|
2007
|
2008
|
2009
|
20102
|
Legal Fees
|
Nil
|
Nil
|
Nil
|
Nil
|
€3,031
|
Nil
|
€250,802
|
€401,284
|
€21,568
|
1From June 2002.
2To date in 2010.