Written answers
Wednesday, 13 December 2006
Department of Social and Family Affairs
Consultancy Contracts
10:00 pm
Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 249: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount spent on consultants in each year from 1997 to 2005 and to date in 2006. [43230/06]
Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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My Department engages consultancy support in a range of areas including policy development, business and organisation change and in the area of information and communications technology (ICT). The bulk on expenditure in the last two years has been on consultancy support for the delivery of strategic ICT and business programmes such as REACH and the Service Delivery Modernisation programme.
The following table outlines the amount of expenditure on consultants in each year by my Department from 1997 to 2005 and to date in 2006:
| Year | Amount paid on consultants |
| 1997 | IEP 614,595 |
| 1998 | IEP 577,000 |
| 1999 | IEP 1,251,000 |
| 2000 | IEP 1,876,000 |
| 2001 | IEP 3,605,000 |
| 2002 | EUR 4,704,000 |
| 2003 | EUR 1,975,000 |
| 2004 | EUR 2,822,000 |
| 2005 | EUR 3,894,000 |
| 2006 (to end Nov) | EUR 7,747,000 |
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