Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance)
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202. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the monetary value of all work contracted out under the aegis of her Department to external agencies or consultancy for work completed or investigations undertaken in human resources and industrial relations including hiring and interviewing of staff and so on; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23951/17]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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I am advised that no Human Resource or Industrial Relations work was contracted out by my Department to external agencies this year. Four agencies under the aegis of my Department contracted out such work to a total monetary value of €100,174 in 2017 to date. This relates to work contracted out by the Chester Beatty Library (€3,099), the National Gallery of Ireland (€89,000), the National Museum of Ireland (€4,420), and the Heritage Council (€3,655). I am further advised that, of this amount, €95,754 related to recruitment costs. It should be noted that the National Gallery of Ireland has had exceptional recruitment requirements due to the planned reopening of the refurbished historic wings in June of this year.