Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a schedule of all consultancy firms, accountancy firms, legal firms, project management firms and IT firms his Department has engaged to carry out work on its behalf in 2018 and 2019 and to date in 2020; if he will summarise the work they were engaged to do and the full costs of the engagements; if disputes over costs ensued; if they were resolved with or without sanctions, financial penalties or the withholding of funds; and if contracts are subject to legal challenge or mediation. [40212/20]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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My Department has published reports on consultancy costs after each calendar year on www.education.ie. Tables showing the returns for consultancy costs for 2018 and 2019 follow. A return for 2020 will be compiled after the end of the accounting period.

Details in respect of accountancy, legal, project management and IT companies, are not immediately available but are being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy in due course.

Disputes over costs can be resolved informally or through legal challenge and/or the services of a mediator.