Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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459. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the agencies under the remit of her Department; the amount that has been spent on all Covid-19-related consultancy contracts by her Department and agencies under her remit in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; the amount paid for each consultant; and the reason for the consultancy. [6045/22]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Details of the consultancy payment made by my Department in relation to Covid-19 are set out in the following table. There were no COVID-19 related consultancy payments made in 2020 and none to date in 2022.

The statutory bodies operating under the aegis of my Department are the Citizens Information Board, the Pensions Authority, the Pensions Council and the Social Welfare Tribunal. There was no COVID-19 related consultancy expenditure incurred by these bodies in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022.