Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the names of external cleaning companies that have provided cleaning services to his Department in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and the amount paid to each company for such works, in tabular form. [23408/23]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department was established in August 2020 and commenced moving headquarters into existing State-owned office space in September 2021. Since moving my Department secured the services of Accent Cleaning Solutions to provide contract cleaning within the building and there is one private cleaner on site Monday – Friday. My department recently engaged a new cleaning service provider, Allpro Services, effective from 11th February 2023. The costs incurred, inclusive of VAT, for both service providers are given in the table below.