Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Question 525: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied) in respect of each year since 2000; the details of each of the contracts and services provided; the nature of the controls applied in the procurement process or processes; if he is satisfied that value for money has been achieved in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29454/05]

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Question 526: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied) in respect of each year since 2000; the details of each of the contracts and services provided; the nature of the controls applied in the procurement process or processes; if he is satisfied that value for money has been achieved in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29469/05]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 525 and 526 together.

My Department has no record of entering into any contracts with Accenture during the period in question. The Department has identified the following payments to a company named Gartner Group UK Limited: in 1997, a payment of £10,579.63 for IT work; in 1998, a payment of £889.96 in respect of research software; and in 1999, a payment of £121.00 identified as e-business conference.

None of these contracts exceeded the public procurement threshold and my Department is satisfied that value for money was achieved in each case.