Departmental Expenditure

Tuesday, 18 November 2025

Questions (1127)

Thomas Gould

Question:

1127. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 964 of 12 November 2025, the reason payment for a 2017 bid was not made until 2020. [63717/25]

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Written answers

In March 2017 the Department entered into a service contract with Hume Brophy Consultants for management and consultancy support provided in preparing the Department’s bid for relocation of the European Medicines Agency to Ireland as a consequence of Brexit.

An invoice was received from Hume Brophy on 13 December 2017, which was for third-party expenses relating to Hume Brophy’s contract work on this project. The invoice amount was of €25,146 (€20,116.8 + VAT @ €5,029.2 = €25,146). Payment was issued to Hume Brophy in respect to this invoice on 8th January 2020.

The delay with payment of this invoice by the Department of Health was due to a delay in receipt of the third-party contractors VAT invoices from Hume Brophy for the work that was carried out on this project.