Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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152. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of reports commissioned from firms (details supplied) in 2018; the firm that completed each report; and the cost of each report. [7170/19]

Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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153. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of consultants from firms (details supplied) contracted to perform work in 2018; and the amount spent on consultants from each firm. [7187/19]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 152 and 153 together.

I wish to advise the Deputy that during 2018, my Department commissioned Deloitte to complete one feasibility study at a cost of €25,805 and Ernst & Young to complete the annual account for the EU Paying Agency, which is a requirement of EU law, at a cost of €516,000, of which €257,633 was paid in 2018.

My Department did not contract any individual consultants from the firms named.