Written answers
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Department of An Taoiseach
Consultancy Contracts
9:00 pm
Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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Question 139: To ask the Taoiseach the private consultancy firms his Department used during the periods 1 January to 14 October 2008 and 15 October 2008 to date in 2009; the projects each worked on; the cost to his Department for each project; and if he will provide the information in tabular readable form. [4821/09]
Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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There has been no spend by my Department on private consultancy firms to date in 2009. The following table details the consultancy firms used by my Department in 2008, the projects worked on and the cost for each project.
One contract was awarded after 14th October 2008 which is highlighted in the following table.
| Details of payment made in 2008 (Jan-December) | ||
| Name of Consultant | Details of Project | Total cost of Project |
| € | ||
| Department | ||
| Grant Thornton | Forensic accounting services in respect of issues pertaining to an industrial relations dispute at Aer Lingus (the services were commissioned by the National Implementation Body to assist in resolving industrial relations issues at Aer Lingus). | 75,120 |
| Goodbody | Provision of assistance with the drafting of a Regulatory Impact Analysis on a legislative proposal. | 7,200 |
| RA Consulting | Employee Opinion Survey — 2nd Tranche | 9,030 |
| QTS Limited | Annual Risk Assessment — health and safety | 1,694 |
| Ipsos Mori | Phase 2 of 2007 QCS Survey | 9,952 |
| Hudson Talent Management | Survey, deployment, analysis and reporting for the Organisational Review Programme | 45,552 |
| PA Consulting Group | 16 days professional services for Organisational Review Programme | 46,775 |
| Raymond Burke Consulting*awarded after 14th October 2008 | NESDO Review | 3,376 |
| National Forum on Europe | ||
| Austin Butler Design | "Getting ready for the Referendum" | 647 |
| Caroline Erskine | Media Relations Services | 124,154 |
| Lansdowne Market Research | Study Research | 6,292 |
| Ireland Newfoundland Partnership | ||
| Bernadette Kiely | Interviewing for the INP Business Development Position | 1,028 |
| Change Management Fund, Department of Finance | ||
| The Economist Intelligence Unit | To conduct an independent Review of the Economic Regulatory Environment to compare the performance of Irish sectoral regulators against their international counterparts | 382,852 |
| Isolde Goggins | Facilitator for workshop on review of the Economic Regulatory Environment | 1,815 |
| Isolde Goggins and Gillian Lauder | Review of the Operation of Regulatory Impact analysis (RIA). In line with the terms of Towards 2016, an independent review of the operation of RIA was commissioned to assess the effectiveness of the current RIA model across Departments. | 85,305 |
| Ipsos Mori | Compilation and presentation of Civil Service Customer Satisfaction survey | 69,817 |
| Goodbody | Provision of economic assistance with the application of Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) across Government Departments | 18,905 |
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