External legal services can be required by the Department of Foreign Affairs - at headquarters and at any of our 100 overseas Missions - for a variety of reasons, principally for advice on employment contracts and other human resources issues that can arise and for advice on rental contracts and other property-related legal issues.
The amount spent by the Department of Foreign Affairs on legal costs/ legal services in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2024, is provided below in tabular form.
Year
|
Amount (€)
|
2014
|
217,703
|
2015
|
178,033
|
2016
|
172,361
|
2017
|
188,258
|
2018
|
207,484
|
2019
|
515,067
|
2020
|
194,078
|
2021
|
343,474
|
2022
|
305,316
|
2023
|
575,307
|
2024 to date
|
50,282
|