Written answers
Thursday, 15 December 2011
Department of Social Protection
Consultancy Contracts
5:00 pm
Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 181: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the names of all external public relations and consultancy persons and organisations used by her Department for the years 2010 and 2011; the amount paid to each in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40512/11]
Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The procurement of services is essential to support the Department in providing high quality service to the public in a cost effective and efficient manner and is governed by a comprehensive regulatory, legal and procedural framework.
The Department engages consultants (individuals or organisations) to provide intellectual or knowledge based services, e.g. expert analysis and advice, including the delivery of reports, studies, assessments, recommendations and proposals that contribute to decision making or policy making. The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table which shows consultancy provided by persons and organisations with expenditure incurred for the period 1 January 2010 to 5 December 2011. The Department's press office deals with all media queries and public relations matters. No money has been spent by my Department on public relations companies during the period in question.
| YEAR: 2010 | ||
| Contractor | Purpose | € |
| ESRI | SWITCH Model – Support for analysis of Budget proposals | 150,000 |
| Naked Objects Group Ltd | SDM - Technical Development Advice | 137,255 |
| Naked Objects Group Ltd | SDM - Business Objects Modelling Advice & Expertise | 105,289 |
| Deloitte & Touche | Information Systems Audit Consultancy | 67,175 |
| ESRI | Activation: Customer Profiling & Case Management (APCM) | 36,602 |
| P.A Consulting Group | ePayments RFI Evaluation | 34,058 |
| Ernst & Young | Security Partner to provide ongoing Information Security Support | 29,889 |
| ESRI | National Employment Action Plan (NEAP) Evaluation | 25,924 |
| Deloitte & Touche | Provision of Confidential Forensic Investigation Services | 8,671 |
| Camille Loftus | Feasibility Study on Introduction of Single Social Assistance Payment for People of Working Age | 1,800 |
| YEAR: 2011 (Spend to 5th December) | ||
| Contractor | Purpose | € |
| Accenture | Business Process Improvement | 186,562 |
| ESRI | SWITCH Model – Support for analysis of Budget proposals | 150,000 |
| P.A Consulting Group | Payments Strategy | 108,495 |
| Naked Objects Group Ltd | SDM - Business Objects Modelling Advice & Expertise | 77,241 |
| Naked Objects Group Ltd | SDM - Technical Development Advice | 59,537 |
| Deloitte & Touche | Information Systems (IS) Internal Audit Services | 14,792 |
| Deloitte & Touche | Confidential Forensic Investigation Services | 7,109 |
| Patrick Oliver Ryan | Gender Recognition Advisor Group Report | 7,000 |
Social Inclusion Division*
| Trinity College Dublin | Poverty Research Initiative Awards | 9,788 |
| NUI Maynooth | Poverty Research Initiative Awards | 6,500 |
| NUI Galway | Poverty Research Initiative Awards | 5,000 |
| Eleanor Ashe | Proof Reading | 1,750 |
| Dr Mary E Mulcahy | Editing | 1,422 |
*Social Inclusion Division was the responsibility of the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs prior to 30 April 2011.
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