Mattie McGrath (Tipperary South, Independent)
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18. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money paid by his Department for consultancy or any other type of accounting or auditing work to PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG in the past two and a half years; the names of the reports received and the dates on which they were commissioned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16085/14]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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The Department did not engage either firm (PwC, KPMG) for consultancy or any other type of accounting or audit work in the past two and a half years.

The Department did second a number of PwC staff. The staff concerned worked in the Financial Services Division where they provided specialist advice. The assignment did not involve the commissioning of any reports. From 1 October 2011 to date, the total costs of the  secondment arrangement was €340,550.