Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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355. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his Department, or State bodies or agencies under the aegis of his Department, use solicitors firms (details supplied); the amount paid to these solicitors, each year, from 2011 to 2014, by his Department, or State bodies or agencies under the aegis of his Department; the date until which his Department, or State bodies or agencies under the aegis of his Department, are contracted to use these solicitors firms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9189/15]

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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All contracts entered into by my Department must conform to the relevant laws and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform guidelines on public procurement.

My Department did not engage or pay the solicitors' firms identified by the Deputy from 2011 to 2014.

I have asked the agencies under the auspices of my Department to supply the requested information, insofar as it applies to those bodies, directly to the Deputy.