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Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Wednesday, 22 Jan 1997

Vol. 473 No. 4

Written Answers. - Departmental Expenditure.

Ned O'Keeffe

Ceist:

14 Mr. E. O'Keeffe asked the Taoiseach the total amount of money expended on consultancies in the past two years; the total number of reports from these consultancies; and the cost of such reports. [1497/97]

Expenditure on consultancies by my Department in the past two years amounts to £361,098 and £693,784 in 1995 and 1996 respectively. This includes expenditure by bodies under the aegis of my Department.

The increase in expenditure can be attributed mainly to the following consultancies which commenced in 1996: the SMI — Review of the Garda Síochána; the Efficiency Audit Group — Review of the Irish Air Corps and Naval Services; the appointment of Goodbody Economic Consultants as an external evaluator of the Operational Programme for Local Urban and Rural Development and the appointment of Keating and Associates as Public Relations consultants for the Operational Programme for Local Urban and Rural Development.

In addition, a number of smaller consultancies arose during the year in relation to the Commemoration of the Famine, the Communicating Europe Initiative and the Western Development Pilot Programme on the Integrated Provision of Public Services in Rural Areas.

The total number of reports produced to date from the consultancies is 24. A number of the reports are internal to the Department and have not been published.

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