{"id":630889,"date":"2026-09-20T23:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T23:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/630889\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T23:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T23:24:16","slug":"revealed-state-spending-on-top-consultancy-firms-nearly-triples-to-e519m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/630889\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: State spending on top consultancy firms nearly triples to \u20ac519m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business Post subscribers can read:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Which consultancy firms received the most from the state last year \u2013 and the departments and agencies behind the spending<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 How the top firms\u2019 annual public revenues have climbed from \u20ac193 million to \u20ac519 million since 2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Why the government is expanding its in-house expertise as it seeks to bring greater discipline to consultancy spending<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Business Post subscribers can read: \u2022 Which consultancy firms received the most from the state last year \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-630889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}