Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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120. To ask the Taoiseach the total spend on consulting services and on ‘business-as-usual’ outsourcing, as differentiated under the Code of ‘Practice for the Governance of State Bodies 2016’ for each non-commercial public body under the aegis of his Department for the year 2022. [27971/23]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The National Economic and Social Development Office (NESDO) is the only non-commercial public body under the aegis of the Department of the Taoiseach.

NESDO is the corporate body for the National Economy and Social Council (NESC) which advises me on strategic policy issues relating to sustainable economic, social, and environmental development in Ireland.

In 2022, NESDO spent a sum of €76,839 on consultancy services which was distributed between two consultants: AECOM and Second Nature. AECOM received a payment of €38,130 while Second Nature received €38,709.