Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 98: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a list of all companies providing an external professional service to his Department such as ICT, legal advice, advertising, project management and including any other external professional service not listed; the amount invoiced by each company to him over the past 12 months, in tabular form. [27306/11]

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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My Department engages the services of a range of professionals in the course of its work. They are used to provide specialist skills where they do not exist in my Department, to provide extra resources where necessary or to provide an external perspective where this is appropriate. In engaging such professionals full account is taken of the need for the service to provide added-value to the work of my Department. The standard procurement arrangements are in place to ensure that these services are sourced in an open and transparent manner that maximises value for money.

Details of such services in respect of 2010 and to end-September this year are in the following table: