Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide the name, costs, date of commission, date or expected date of publication and name of the external consultant of all external reports commissioned by his Department since March 2011. [47070/12]

Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North-West Limerick, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy will be aware, my Department, as currently configured, was established on 2 June 2011 and therefore the available information is being provided from that date. I am advised that €39,628 was spent by my Department on external reports from consultants during this timeframe. The details requested in relation to this expenditure are set out in the table below. It may be noted that contracts for the provision of services are not included.

TABLE: Expenditure on consultancy by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht from 2nd June 2011 to date