Eoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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170. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the level of pro bono work provided by legal, accountancy and consulting firms in the past 24 months to his Department; which of those firms have also been awarded State contracts by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4608/14]

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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No pro bono work has been provided to my Department by legal, accountancy and consulting firms in the past twenty four months.

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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171. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a list of the top 20 consulting firms engaged by his Department, including public bodies, in order of fee generation-cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4621/14]

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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My Department engages a wide range of external service providers in areas where the required skills or resources are not available in-house and it is more cost-effective to source them externally. In the absence of a particular time period specified by the Deputy details of payments of €20,000 or above made by my Department from 1 October 2013 to 31 December 2013 to such providers are set out in the table below. It should be noted that these are a snapshot of payments falling due during the period in question and do not represent quarterly payments. The list of service providers includes a number of professional services such as IT-related, interpretation and translation (including payments to the European Commission for Interpretation Services provided during the EU Presidency) and other Presidency related payments, for example catering costs, incurred on behalf of all government Departments, which fell due for payment in that particular period.

The Deputy may wish to be aware that the information provided is publicly available, at the following link, on my Department’s website and is updated on a regular basis.

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Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Payments of €20,000 or above to external service providers in period 1 October 2013 to 31 December 2013