Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Independent)
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250. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide, in tabular form for each year since 2003, the total cumulative amount in euro paid by his Department for non-audit services to companies (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48109/13]

Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Independent)
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251. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will detail in tabular form, for each year since 2003, the total cumulative amount in euro paid by his Department to companies (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48134/13]

Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Independent)
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252. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form, for each year since 2003, the total cumulative amount in euro paid by his Department to senior counsel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48152/13]

Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 250 to 252, inclusive, together.

The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following tables, which include payments made from the formation of my Department in June 2007 to date. The Department has a small cohort of permanent staff, some 250 full time equivalents at present.Its remit includes oversight of very complex policy areas and direct procurement of major services where protection of the State's interest must be paramount. This situation necessarily requires my Department to procure specialist external professional advice in legal, financial and technical areas to enable it to discharge its responsibility to deliver quality services and protect the interests of the State and the taxpayer. In obtaining these specialised services, my Department always seeks to ensure value for money and that expenditure is kept to the minimum necessary. My Department complies with relevant EU regulations and Department of Finance guidelines on the procurement of goods and services.

Table 1 : Payments for non-audit services to certain named companies from June 2007 to date:

Table 2 : Payment to certain named companies from June 2007 to date:

Table 3 : Payments to Senior Counsels from June 2007 to date: