Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 340: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number and identity of persons, groups, bodies or agencies other than the established civil servants from whom she or Ministers of State in her Department have sought or received advice in connection with policy or administrative matters appertaining to the operation of her Department or other bodies under her aegis in the past 12 months; the extent to which such advice related to capital expenditure projects; the cost of such advice; the extent to which it has been implemented to date or if it is intended to be implemented; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35967/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The information sought by the Deputy in respect of advice that has been formally commissioned on a consultancy basis is being compiled in my Department and will be sent to him as soon as possible.