David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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627. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the estimated full-year savings for 2017 by reducing spending on professional fees by 10% in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14105/16]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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My Department seeks to keep the cost of services that are subject to Professional Services Withholding Tax to a minimum. Expenditure on these services varies over time as various projects commence and others are completed.

I am advised that if spending by my Department on such services were maintained at the level observed in 2015, then a 10% reduction in the associated fees would result in a reduction in expenditure of the order of €350,000 per annum.