Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 153: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount spent on consultants in each year from 1997 to 2005 and to date in 2006. [43226/06]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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The table sets out the costs of contracts with consultants to my Department's Vote in the period from the July 1997 to the end of 1997, each of the years 1998 to 2005 and the year 2006 to date.

The figures include expenditure from my Department's Vote on contracts entered into by the National Development Plan/Community Support Framework (NDP/CSF) Evaluation, Information and IT units which operate within my Department and by the Euro Changeover Board of Ireland. In 2000 expenditure on consultancy services for design and delivery of the euro changeover advertising campaign and purchase of media space for the euro changeover advertising accounted for some €8m of the total for that year.