Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context

Question 288: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the expenditure by her Department on consultants to date in 2008; and if she will compare this to the expenditure on consultants for each of the past five years. [19498/08]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context

The information requested by the Deputy is as follows:

I should point out that the figures for 2006, 2007 and 2008 refer to consultancies as defined by the revised 2006 Guidelines issued by the Department of Finance. Figures for the earlier years predate these revised guidelines and represent total expenditure by my Department on consultancies, contractors and external service providers — categories which we had previously grouped together as "consultancies" when replying to previous Parliamentary Questions on this topic.