Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

I answered a written question on that recently. I do not think Mr. Flynn received any remuneration from my Department. He was chairman of the Government's decentralisation committee but that is not considered as consultancy work.

The expenditure on consultancy was €153,122 which was mainly on the employee opinion survey and professional services for a report on comparative international approaches to redress for customers of the Civil Service. Of that, €13,198 was spent on public relations.

Expenditure under A9, the EU Presidency, includes €158,280 on consultancy services. I do not have a breakdown of the figures for those contracts. The Presidency is one and the other is the employee opinion survey for the Civil Service redress system.

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