My Department was established on 1st October 2002. I will deal with information in respect of the period from that date.
The person named has had a number of contracts with this Department in respect of consultancy, and commemorative festival management and staffing. The payments in respect of the years 2003 to 2006 are as follows:
2003: in respect of Planning and coordinating the Rejoyce festival which ran in 2004.
Fees and staffing and employee costs and expenses €50,058.59.
2004: in respect of Coordinator of the Rejoyce Festival, Fees, Festival staffing and employee costs and expenses: €125,563.58.
2005: in respect of, consultation on Beckett Festival, commencement of Beckett Festival planning and finalisation of Rejoyce. Fees and festival expenses €12,846.18.
2006: in respect of co-ordination, management and staffing of the Beckett Centenary Festival Fees, festival staffing and employee costs and expenses: €92,828.36.
In the period up to the establishment of the National Library on an independent statutory basis (May 2005) payments by the National Library of Ireland to the person in question amounted to €1,001.70 in respect of the transport costs of Joyce material loaned to the Library.