Legal Services

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 12 January 2011

Wednesday, 12 January 2011

Ceisteanna (860)

Alan Shatter

Ceist:

913 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs with regard to legal services used by his Department, any body under the aegis of his Department and any State agency for which he is responsible; if he will give details of the legal services of which there has been competitive tendering in each of the years 2008, 2009 and 2010; the legal firm in each case that furnished advice with regard to any such tendering and assisted in the preparation of tender documents and in each case to detail the solicitors firm that succeeded in each tendering process, the nature of the work for which each firm successfully tendered and the fees paid for any such advice or assistance to each firm for work for which it tendered. [1647/11]

Freagraí scríofa

Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs (Deputy Pat Carey)

I am advised that no legal services were procured following competitive tendering by my own Department, or by the following bodies funded from my Department's Vote Group: the Office of the Commissioner of Charitable Donations and Bequests; the Dormant Accounts Board; An Foras Teanga (comprising Foras na Gaeilge and the Ulster-Scots Agency); the Equality Authority; the Equality Tribunal; and the Family Support Agency.

Details with respect to instances where legal services were procured by bodies funded from my Department's Vote Group following a competitive tendering process between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2010 are set out in the table below. I am advised that the services of external solicitors and barristers were procured in these cases to provide essential legal advice, legal opinion or to carry out specialist legal work where the legal expertise required was not available in-house. I am also advised that no legal advice was sought or fees paid to legal firms to assist in the preparation of tender documents as referred to by the Deputy.

Body / Agency Name	Name of Solicitor/Barrister	Amount Paid 2008	Amount Paid 2009	Amount Paid 2010
		€	€	€
Údarás na Gaeltachta	Brian Conroy	Nil	Nil	1,512
	Ciara O’Callaghan	Nil	2,250	Nil
	Dáithí Mac Cárthaigh	Nil	Nil	647
	Ercus Stewart	5,445	Nil	Nil
	Garrett Simons	Nil	Nil	2,420
	George Brady	2,420	Nil	Nil
	George Brady	Nil	1,823	Nil
	George Brady	Nil	Nil	4,840
	George Brady	Nil	Nil	908
	George Brady	Nil	Nil	1,210
	Geraldine Glynn	Nil	1,628	Nil
	Geraldine Glynn	Nil	182	Nil
	McCann Fitzgerald Solicitors	Nil	911	Nil
	Purtill Solicitors	Nil	Nil	250
	Quinn Dillon & Co Solicitors	1,994	Nil	Nil
	RDJ Glynn Solicitors	Nil	Nil	3,630
	Leonie Hussey O’Brien	Nil	Nil	667
	RDJ Glynn Solicitors	Nil	Nil	2,800
An Coimisinéir Teanga	Antóin de Lap	Nil	Nil	Nil
	Antóin de Lap	6,899	Nil	Nil
	Antóin de Lap	Nil	7,859	Nil
	Antóin de Lap	Nil	Nil	1,948
	Séamus Ó Tuathail	Nil	Nil	Nil
	Séamus Ó Tuathail	4,384	Nil	Nil
	Séamus Ó Tuathail	Nil	4,391	Nil
	Séamus Ó Tuathail	Nil	Nil	918
Waterways Ireland	Andrew Crean-Lynch Solicitor	27,915	Nil	Nil
	Arthur Cox	12,571	Nil	Nil
	Carson McDowell	Nil	Nil	1,197
	Copeland McCaffrey Solicitors	36,203	Nil	Nil
	Elliott Duffy Garrett	Nil	Nil	1,050
	Elliott Duffy Garrett	Nil	130	Nil
	Elliott Duffy Garrett	1,767	Nil	Nil
	FJ Gearty & Co Solicitors	Nil	Nil	1,013
	LK Shields Solicitors	Nil	Nil	4,880
	LK Shields Solicitors	Nil	67,965	Nil
	LK Shields Solicitors	57,300	Nil	Nil
	Lucas Associates	Nil	Nil	616
	Lucas Associates	Nil	7,639	Nil
	Mason Hayes & Curran	Nil	4,485	Nil
	Mason Hayes & Curran	16,936	Nil	Nil
	Matheson Ormsby Prentice	10,213	Nil	Nil
	McCann FitzGerald Solicitors	Nil	Nil	6,508
	McCann FitzGerald Solicitors	Nil	13,682	Nil
	McCann FitzGerald Solicitors	7,941	Nil	Nil
	Morgan McManus Solicitors	Nil	Nil	46,592
	Morgan McManus Solicitors	Nil	229,595	Nil
	Morgan McManus Solicitors	48,522	Nil	Nil
	Murnaghan & Fee Solicitors	Nil	Nil	53,763
	Murnaghan & Fee Solicitors	30,575	Nil	Nil
	Murnaghan & Fee Solicitors	Nil	38,515	Nil
	P O’Connor and Son	11,807	Nil	Nil
Western Development Commission	McCann Fitzgerald	12,150	Nil	Nil
		Nil	24,300	Nil
		Nil	Nil	5,589
	Purdy Solicitors	3,122	Nil	Nil
		Nil	3,895	Nil
	Beauchamps	8,679	Nil	Nil
		Nil	24,866	Nil
	Mason Hayes and Curran	Nil	8,441	Nil
	Callan Tansey	6,241	Nil	Nil
		Nil	22,320	Nil
	Lavery Kirby Gilmartin	8,107	Nil	Nil
		Nil	972	Nil
		Nil	Nil	2,178
	Eugene F Collins	Nil	2,965	Nil
		Nil	Nil	12,145
	Dillon Eustace	2,237	Nil	Nil
National Disability Authority	Beauchamps	17,327	Nil	Nil
	Beauchamps	7,089	Nil	Nil
	Beauchamps	1,791	Nil	Nil
	BCM Hanby Wallace	Nil	7,108	Nil
Irish Human Rights Commission	Aileen Donnelly	14,520	Nil	Nil
	Behan and Associates	4,574	Nil	Nil
	Brian Conroy	4,840	Nil	Nil
		4,779	Nil	Nil
	Dillon Eustace	Nil	3,791	Nil
		Nil	Nil	1,500
	Gerard Hogan	13,310	Nil	Nil
	Hayes and Co.	738	Nil	Nil
	Michael Lynn	2,178	Nil	Nil
		1,815	Nil	Nil
	Nuala Egan	10,974	Nil	Nil
		3,630	Nil	Nil
		7,290	Nil	Nil
	P Dillon Malone	10,611	Nil	Nil
	Patrick Gageby	17,303	Nil	Nil
	Peter Ward	6,075	Nil	Nil
	Siobhan Phelan	10,890	Nil	Nil
	Tom McGillicudy	13,189	Nil	Nil