Paul McGrath (Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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Question 314: To ask the Minister for Finance the number and value of contracts awarded to outside consultants by his Department in each of the past five years; the details of the contracts involved; and if these projects have reached fruition. [31775/05]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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I would refer the Deputy to replies to two previous parliamentary questions about this topic, copies of which are being forwarded to him. These are of 17 February 2004 and 28 June 2005, and together they give details of the purpose and recipient of my Departments consultancies in the years he mentions, along with the payments made in each year. As the Deputy will appreciate, given the amount of information they contain it has not been possible, in the time available for answering the present question, to compile the information in the format sought by him, that is, showing the cost by contract rather than by year and showing also which contracts have reached fruition. However, my Department is compiling the information in that format and it will be forwarded to the Deputy shortly.