Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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85. 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 commercial public body under the aegis of his Department for 2022. [30396/23]

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 had NIL expenditure on consultancy services.