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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (13 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 85. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to cost overruns on public infrastructure projects; if so, the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7289/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Consultations (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 4. To ask the Minister for Finance the expenditure details for all consultancy or audit services provided to his Department by a company (details supplied) from 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7562/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Consultations (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: There is great concern, and growing awareness, at the huge sums paid by Government Departments to outside firms. This question relates to PricewaterhouseCooper, PwC. I am asking the Minister to state how much that company has received from the Minister's Department between 2015 and 2018 and this year to date.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Consultations (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Last year, before any of the recent farce relating to the national children's hospital came to full public prominence, I submitted a parliamentary question to the Minister and his other Department, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. I was genuinely surprised to find that in one year alone, 2018, the Department spent €3.5 million on consultancy firms. According to that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Consultations (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I did.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Consultations (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: No.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Consultations (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister is the one who is lambasting. External firms are being paid and he stated that his Departments are not able to carry out a review. Surely, one of his officials could do it. Can they not add? In reply to a parliamentary question last year, the Minister informed me that it cost €44,500, yet he is now saying it was approximately €73,000. There is a disparity of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Consultations (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: There is a gap between the figures of €44,500 and €73,000. It is a lot of money to ordinary Joe Soaps, although it might not be a lot to the Minister, his plethora of advisers or his competent officials. The Department employs external agencies and officials, but the Minister has provided alarming sums. He said the Department employed PwC only once. If he had said it...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Consultations (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister's Departments. He has two of them but perhaps he cannot manage them both.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Consultations (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister should answer the question. I have asked my question. I refer to the Minister's Departments.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Consultations (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I refer to the Minister's Departments.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: It is the wrong site.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: It never listened-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: It has no expertise.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Not in this area.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: It is in the wrong place.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: When you are in a hole, stop digging.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: The public are growing weary of all the waste, the cost overruns and everything else. I call on the Tánaiste to put in place an immediate review of the expenses in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, especially relating to press secretaries and advisers. Information provided to me in responses to parliamentary questions has shown that €6.5 million has been spent in...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: It is ridiculous.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister was only after spin when he was in opposition.