State paid €6.5m to solicitors for DPP work in 2013

Private solicitors working for the Director of Public Prosecutions were paid almost €6.5m last year.

According to information released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the top earning solicitor practice contracted to the State Solicitor Service last year was Barry Galvin in Cork City, who received €453,778.

Mr Galvin retired as state solicitor for the city last year but continues in his private practice. He also served as the chief legal adviser to the Criminal Assets Bureau for seven years to 2003, having being central to the establishment of the agency.