Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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794. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department and each body under its aegis discloses expenditure on external consultancy and adviser fees, by category (details supplied) in their annual report and or financial statements for each accounting year; if they provide direct web links to the most recent publications where these Section 1.5 disclosures are set out for her Department and for each aegis body; and if they provide the total consultancy and adviser fees by the Section 1.5 categories for each of the past five years for her Department and for each aegis body, respectively; and the internal controls that are in place to ensure that these category-level disclosures are made annually and that procurement of such services complies with applicable competitive tendering rules, in tabular form. [55360/25]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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Officials in the Department are engaging with the relevant aegis bodies to collate the information requested. A reply will issue directly to the Deputy in respect of the Department's position as well as the aegis bodies as soon as possible.