Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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136. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment 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, 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 and-or withholding of funds; and if contracts are subject to legal challenge or mediation. [40208/20]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The table below sets out a schedule of all consultancy firms, accountancy firms, legal firms, project management firms and ICT firms that my Department has contracted in the period in question and describes the services that each firm was contracted to provide.

The full cost for this broad range of services that the Deputy sought information on during the period in question was €13,098,207, broken down by year as follows:

2018: €5,846,383

2019: €3,742,105

2020 (to date): €3,509,719