752 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport with regard to legal services used by her Department, any Body under the aegis of her Department and any State agency for which she is responsible; if she 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 who 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. [1658/11]

My Department did not engage in competitive tendering for legal services in the years 2008 to 2010, inclusive. In respect of the bodies under the aegis of this Department, the procurement of legal services is a matter for the bodies themselves.