COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, April 16, 2012

QUESTION NO.2

QUESTION: Councillor A.M. Dermody

To ask can the Manager please state if there were outside consultants employed in the sale/disposal of the waste collection business by South Dublin County Council, if so how much was spent on those consultants, were there legal fees associated with the sale and how much were those legal fees?

REPLY:

The Council engaged Ernst & Young as advisors in the process of selling the waste collection service at a total cost of €284,487.21 inclusive of VAT while Arthur Cox were retained as legal representatives at a cost of €150,929.75 inclusive of VAT.

The value of savings estimated at some €17.2 million achieved in the sale of service over the remaining lifetime of the current Council was reported to the Council during the Council's Budget Process in December 2011.