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Wednesday, 30 November 2005

 

Consultancy Contracts.

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11:00 am

Photo of Bertie AhernBertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

I propose to take Questions Nos. 7 to 11, inclusive, together.

I propose to circulate with the Official Report a table which gives details of consultants engaged by my Department since 1997. A second table to be circulated gives details of consultants engaged by bodies under the aegis of my Department during the same period. A third table gives details of the number of contracts above €50,000 in each year since 2000.

Every effort is made by my Department to minimise expenditure on consultancy services. However, where it is necessary to engage consultants in order to avail of their particular expertise or experience, the procurement of consultancy services is subject to public procurement guidelines and, where applicable, EU procurement rules and guidelines, with selection criteria geared to select the most economically advantageous tender. It is also our policy that in so far as it is possible, skills-transfer from consultants to departmental staff takes place as an integral part of all consultancy engagements.

The purpose of this is to increase the knowledge and expertise of departmental staff and to reduce and, if possible, eliminate future dependance on consultants in the areas concerned.

Table 1: Department of the Taoiseach.
Year of Contract Supplier Purpose Estimated Cost Total Expenditure
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1997-2001 Mr. Noel Dorr Personal Representative of the Taoiseach on the Carlsson Group 38,961 38,961
1998 (Phase 1) St. John's University New York & ESRI A study to consider and evaluate the economic, budgetary and administrative impact of the introduction of a basic income system 34,283 34,283
1998/1999 William M. Mercer & Associates Consultancy services in respect of the development of a Performance Management system for the Irish Civil Service 26,621 26,621
1999 Farrell Grant Sparks Business Planning Templates 4,897 4,897
1999 PA Consulting Audit of Year 2000 Contingency Plans 8,888 8,888
1999 Prospectus Consultants Feasibility Study into the establishment of a training facility for IFSC companies 6,349 6,349
1999 Institute of Public Administration Development and delivery of Phase 1 of the Department of the Taoiseach's Career Development Programme 75, 232 66,723
1999-2000 Professors Rory O'Donnell and Paul Teague To evaluate partnership at work in Ireland 50,789 50,789
1999 Deloitte and Touche Business Analysis and Review of the Financial Management Function 46,691 46,691
2000-2002 PricewaterhouseCoopers e-Cabinet Feasibility Study 152,094 152,094
2000 Drury Communications Consultancy/PR services in respect of the development of the PMDS pack and supply of promotional material for launch event2 37,745 37,745
2000 Institute of Public Administration Consultancy services in respect of development of Guidelines for Strategy Statements 4,916 4,916
2000 BFK Design Ltd. Development and design of elements of the PMDS packs2 16,912 16,912
2001 Hay Management Consultants Design and development of effective systems of feedback within the Performance Management and Development System (PMDS)2 45,774 45,774
2001 Dr. Jane Pillinger Research Report on Equality Diversity and Quality Customer Service2 38,700 38,700
2001 Arthur Andersen Management Information Framework 93,440 93,440
2001 Dr. Tom McCarthy, NUI Maynooth Research for Consultation Document: Towards Better Regulation2 7,500 6,692
2001-2002 Sureskills Windows 2000 implementation 147,908 147,908
2001-2002 Mr. Alex Matheson, OECD Participation on Steering Group for the Evaluation of the Strategic Management Initiative2 14,014 14,014
2001 PA Consulting Group Evaluation of the Strategic Management Initiative2 471,036 491,992
2001 Institute of Public Administration Preparation of HR Strategy Guidelines document2 18,284 18,284
2001-2002 Oracle Management Information Framework 229,623 229,623
2001 Deloitte & Touche Value for Money Audit of Mobile Phone services 7,618 7,618
2001 IBEC Review of Health & Safety 4,889 4,889
2001 Hosca Management Consultants Consultancy services for carrying out an Employee Opinion Survey 12,168 14,613
2002 Octagon IT Strategic Review 8,400 8,400
2002 Dr. Patrick Butler Evaluation of Customer Action Plans2 32,000 32,000
2002 Prof. Philip Lane Commentary on Better Regulation Submissions2 4,500 4,500
2002 Peter White Consultancy regarding communications for the Civil Service modernisation programme 850 850
2002 KPMG Consulting (Bearing Point) Implementation of a Human Resource Management System 88,000 87,695
2003 Watson Wyatt Consultancy services for carrying out an Employee Opinion Survey 25,410 25,410
2003 Watson Wyatt Consultancy services for carrying out an Employee Opinion Survey — further reports 14,520 14,520
2003 Grayling Gilmore PR Consultants* EU Presidency Logo Launch & Public Relations Campaign 60,000 60,000
2003 Jacobs & Associates Consultancy on regulatory reform policy2 12,947 12,947
2003 Professor Martin Cave, Warwick Business School Consultancy on regulatory reform policy2 575 575
2003 Fujitsu Services E-Cabinet Security Policy 15,730 15,730
2003 Lansdowne Market Research Irish Civil Service — Customer Satisfaction Survey report2 36,000 36,000
2003 NGM Market Research Communicating Change and Modernisation in the Civil Service report2 15,000 15,000
2003 Enterprise LSE London School of Economics to provide training course for Irish Officials in relation to regulation2 50,820 38,879
2003 Carr Communications Development and delivery of Phase II of the Department of the Taoiseach's Career Development Programme 68,100 62,646
2004 Eurokom Security Review 7,650 7,650
2004 Red Dog Design EU Presidency Awareness Campaign 65,740 65,740
2004 Carr Communications Disability Bill 12,147 12,147
2004 Good Practice Ltd Tailoring of on-line toolkit for Department Intranet 33,350 33,350
2004 McCann Fitzgerald Solicitors Research and preparation of report — Redress for Civil Service Customers2 45,375 76,894
2004 Watson Wyatt Employee Opinion Survey 27,947 27,947
2004 The Design Consultancy Step by Step Guide to the PMDS System 4,719 4,719
2004 Paddy Walley Ingenuity Project 6,000 6,000
2004 Grayling Gilmore PR re EU Presidency 21,023 21,023
2004 Red Dog Design EU Presidency Posters 2,060 2,060
2004 David Donaghy Day of Welcomes production 28,900 28,900
2004 Academic Conferences Ltd ECEG Conference Management 36,300 36,300
2004 Jacobs & Associates Preparation of report for EU Conference on Better Regulation2 18,876 18,876
2004 Dr Patrick Paul Walsh, Trinity College Dublin Preparation of report for EU Conference on Better Regulation2 5,250 5,250
2004 HCM International Research on the integration of the Performance Management and Development System (PMDS) with HR policies and processes2 39,930 Nil (ongoing)
2004 Zerflow E-Cabinet Security Assessment 5,929 5,929
2004-2005 Goodbody Economic Consultants Economic assistance to Departments/Offices piloting regulatory Impact Analysis2 21,780 21,054 ongoing
2004 RTE EU Presidency Consultancy Services 35,256 35,256
2004-2005 Mercer Human Resource Consulting Review of the Performance Management and Development System (PMDS) Evaluation results for technical and professional staff2 15,125 15,125
2004 & 2005 Des Geraghty Promotion of the Affordable Housing Initiative 3,675 3,675
2005 IQ Content Usability & Accessibility Review of websites 37,890 19,239
2005 Tansey, Webster & Co Affordable Housing Proposal 9,680 9,680
2005 Hay Group (Ireland) Ltd Business Plan Facilitation 3,876 3,876
2005 Pan Research Ltd Customer Service Evaluation Report 6,313 6,313
2005 Enterprise LSE London School of Economics to provide a training course for Irish Officials on regulation2 59,600 41,443
2005 Fitzpatrick Associates Research Project on the Special Initiatives under Sustaining Progress 37,207 37,207
2005 Institute of Public Administration Research in relation to mapping of regulatory framework2 21,780 13,310 to date
2005 Grant Thornton Retention of Accountants on behalf of the National Implementation Body 60,000 Nil (Ongoing)
* Met from funds provided by Department of Foreign Affairs.
2 Costs met from Change Management Fund, administered by the Department of Finance.
Table 2: Bodies under the Aegis of the Department of the Taoiseach.
Information Society Commission
Year of Contract Supplier Purpose Estimated Cost Total Expenditure
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April 1998-2001 Edelman Public Relations Engaged on a retainer basis to manage a communications and media strategy for the ISC 152,115 152,115
April 1998 to June 1999 The Learning Organisation Cyril Drury an educational expert was engaged to assist the Learning Advisory Group in the preparation of a report on the non-formal environment for learning and information and communications technology 34,992 34,992
1998 Lansdowne Market Research Appointed to carry out the Public and Business Survey 61,455 61,455
1999 MRBI Research survey of the general public designed to establish levels of awareness of, and engagement with, the technologies associated with the evolving Information Society 35,951 35,951
1999 MRBI Survey of Irish businesses to establish awareness of technology 23,814 23,814
July to November 1999 Edelman Worldwide PR Consultancy for Netd@ys 66,026 66,026
November 1999 MRBI Update of 1999 research survey to assess the impact of Netd@ys 12,214 12,214
2000 MRBI Research into awareness and usage of information and communications technology amongst Irish businesses 21,332 21,332
2000 MRBI Research into General Public Awareness and Usage of Information and Communications Technology 2000 32,355 32,355
2000 NW Labs To examine the issues of convergency and the implications for telecommunications communications regulation for Ireland 26,977 26,977
2000 Centre for Research in Technology in Education Research material for seminar 20,890 20,890
2000 Dunnion Partners Development of Government websites review and report 4,609 4,609
2000 KPMG Tax incentives & barriers to e working in Ireland 6,349 6,349
2000 Farrell Grant Sparks Research into future needs for Ireland's development as an Information Society 30,669 30,669
2001 Chapman Flood Mazars Auditing services supplied for Equalskills initiative 19,600 19,600
2002 Chinook Consulting Evaluation of Equalskills Initiative 18,165 18,165
2002 ElectricNews.net Production of e-Government Ireland Bulletin 24,040 24,040
2002 Text 100 Messaging Workshop of ISC members 6,655 6,655
2002 MRBI Business survey on attitudes to the Information Society in Ireland 28,740 28,740
2002 MRBI General Public survey on attitudes to the Information Society in Ireland 56,628 56,628
2002-2003 Models Research (now Itech Research) Consultancy and report on inclusive Information Society Development 59,931 59,931
2002 Accenture Consultancy and report on a National e-Payments strategy 155,334 155,334
2002-2005 Fleischman-Hillard Saunders Engaged on a retainer basis to manage a communications and media strategy for the ISC 133,677 133,677
2003 Parallel IT Electronic Document Management Exchange 13,613 13,613
2003 Sonas Innovation Consultancy and report on Ireland's Broadband Future 49,610 49,610
2003 DCU Research on Perspectives of Information Society Thinkers 6,655 6,655
2003 ESRI Analysis of General Public and Business Surveys 1996-2002 7,260 7,260
2004 Version 1 Software Report on the assessment of the e-Health progress and potential benefits 48,400 48,400
National Forum on Europe
Year of Contract Supplier Purpose Estimated Cost Total Expenditure
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2002 Keating and Associates Media Strategy and market Survey 6,278 6,278
2002-2005 Caroline Erskine PR Consultancy ongoing 188,628
2002-2005 Conor Joyce PR Consultancy 85,568 85,568
All-Party Committee on the Constitution
Year of Contract Supplier Purpose Estimated Cost Total Expenditure
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1999 IT Assist Advice on e mail and internet systems 461 461
December 1997 Brian Murphy PR — regarding launch of 2nd Progress Report 317 317
1997 Datapac Installation of computer network 922 922
1997/98 Coakley/Laver Study on the future of Seanad Éireann 1,270 1,270
1998 Dr Richard Synott Research on Referendum 1,270 1,270
1998 Lansdowne Market Research Research on Referendum Voting 6,914 6,914
1998 Gerard Hogan SC Honorarium for legal drafting on constitutional amendments 3,073 3,073
1999 Laura Rattigan BL Legal Research 1,663 1,663
1999 Frank Farrell In-house Services Creation of a database to record public submissions on the Committee's Reports 190 190
2000 Moss Technologies Year 2000 Compliance 307 307
2000 Sureskills.com IT support 3,687 3,687
2001 Gerard Hogan S.C. Research on Referenda 480 480
2000-2001 Shelbourne Public Affairs PR 16,837 16,837
2000 Sureskills.com IT Support 3,687 3,687
2000-2001 Diarmuid Rossa Phelan Legal research 6,200 6,200
2001 Richard Humphreys Research on rights 16,349 16,349
2002 Seán de Fréine Feasibility study 500 500
2002-2003 Donal Ó Maolfabhaile PR Consultancy 11,600 11,600
Tribunal of Inquiry (Payments to Messrs. Charles Haughey and Michael Lowry)
Year of Contract Supplier Purpose Estimated Cost Total Expenditure
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1999 to date Baker Consultants Design, implement and host a Web site 12,978 12,978
1999 Moss Technology Limited Year 2000 compliance report and follow up 6,352 6,352
1999 Confidential Legal consultancy in relation to the Moriarty Tribunal 7,536 7,536
2000 Confidential Commercial research 3,851 3,851
2001 Ionet Ltd Demonstration 107 107
2001 Moss technology Report on Tribunal IT network and system 3,055 3,055
2003 Peter Bacon & Associates Specialist Data 46,948 46,948
2004 Peter Bacon & Associates Analysis and Advice 50,820 50,820
National Centre for Partnership and Performance
Year of Contract Supplier Purpose Estimated Cost Total Expenditure
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2001-2002 Bradley McGurk Partnership Corporate Identity 25,242 25,242
2001 Woodgrange Consultancies Irish Times 2000 7,999 7,999
2001 Bill Roche Consultative Process and Strategic Planning 31,743 31,743
2001 Tom Neville Guidelines on Organisational change 20,570 20,570
2001-2003 Bradley McGurke Corporate Identity 1,116 1,116
2002 Options Consultancy Information & Consultation Project 5,445 5,445
2002-2003 Options Consultancy Learning Strategy 14,425 14,425
2003 Tom Neville Employee Financial Involvement 30,949 30,949
2003 Paern Kandola Competency Development 11,206 11,206
2003 ESRI Surveys (Forum on the Workplace of the Future) 76,481 76,481
2003 Align Management Solutions Health Strategy using a Partnership Approach 7,000 7,000
2003 Roy Greene Scoping paper (Forum on the Workplace of the Future) 4,980 4,980
2003 Maria Maguire Scoping paper (Forum on the Workplace of the Future) 26,988 26,988
2003 John Geary Scoping paper (Forum on the Workplace of the Future) 5,600 5,600
2003 Align Management Solutions Consultation paper (Forum on the Workplace of the Future) 1,400 1,400
2004 Brian Moss Forum on the Workplace of the Future 9,600 9,600
2004 William Roche Forum on the Workplace of the Future 13,1987 13,198
2004 Maria Maguire Forum on the Workplace of the Future 13,673 13,673
2004 John Caden Public Relations 83,445 83,445
2004 ESRI Surveys (Forum on the Workplace of the Future) 28,785 28,785
2005 Maria Maguire Forum on the Workplace of the Future 11,514 11,514
National Economic and Social Forum
Year of Contract Supplier Purpose Estimated Cost Total Expenditure
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1998 Advance Organisation and Management Development Consultancy work for the Forum relating to Project Teams 14,221 14,221
1999 Hay Consultants, D. Halloran and C. O'Connell Social Housing 10,351 10,351
1999 Anne Clarke Local Employment Services 8,386 8,386
2000 Agtel Social Housing 38,092 38,092
2000 NI Housing Executive Social Housing 7,389 7,389
2000 Hay Consultants Labour Shortages 2,920 2,920
2001 Kieran McKeown Lone Parents 6,223 6,223
2000 Anne Clark Lone Parents 4,400 4,400
2000 NUI Maynooth Lone Parents 7,927 7,927
2000 Goodbody Draft opinion on National Anti-Poverty Strategy 3,143 3,143
2000 UCD (Equality Studies Centre) Draft Opinion on Equality issues 18,056 18,056
2001 Tamarron Work on NESF Report No. 23 5,079 5,079
2002 ESRI (Emer Smyth) Early School Leavers 3,892 3,892
2002 Eithne Fitzgerald Older workers 3,600 3,600
2002 Jerry Sexton Older workers 15,392 15,392
2002 ESRI Survey Older workers 15,730 15,730
2002 ESRI Questionnaire Social Capital 12,342 12,342
2002 Ann Clarke Older workers 3,282 3,282
2003 Mary Murphy Child Income support paper 1,440 1,440
2004 Ita Mangan Co-op 3,030 3,030
2005 Colm Harmon Early Childhood Care and Education 6,323 6,323
2005 RAND Europe Evidence Based Policy Making Seminar£6,737stg. £6,737stg.
2005 WRC Consultants Creating a more inclusive labour market 15,094 15,094
2005 Patricia Quinn Cultural Citizenship 15,150 15,150
2005 Eustace Patterson Creating a more inclusive labour market 4,292 4,292
National Economic and Social Council
Year of Contract Supplier Purpose Estimated Cost Total Expenditure
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1999 Dr John Sweeney & Dr Kieran McKeown Social and Economic Research Consultant Preparing background documents for Strategy Report 14,365 14,365
1999 Dr John Geary Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business UDC Preparing background documents for Strategy Report 5,333 5,333
1999 Dr Richard Boyle Institute of Public Administration Preparing background documents for Strategy Report 5,377 5,377
1999 ITG Computers Testing equipment for Year 2000 compliance 3,285 3,285
2001 ESRI Research re Strategic review of Tax and Welfare system under PPF 12,697 12,697
2001 Síle O'Connor Research for reports 107 & 108 6,984 6,984
2001 J Visser Paper for Report No 111 13,069 13,069
2001 Indecon Consultants Regional Development in the North West 21,202 21,202
2003 Edgeworth Organisational Consultants PR Consultancy 1,200 1,200
2004 UPE Consultancy Ltd Housing Workshop 7,139 7,139
2004 Kathleen Scanlon Housing Workshop 889 889
2004 Bill O'Herlihy Communications Professional Services for NESC's 30th Anniversary Conference 3,779 3,779
2004 Katholieke Universiteit Housing Workshop 3,147 3,147
2004 Professor G. Meen Housing Workshop 1,538 1,538
2004 Bill O'Herlihy Communications Professional Services for EESC Conference 3,025 3,025
2004 Intl. Org. for Migration Consultancy fees for NESC Migration Policy Study 119,692 119,692
2005 O'Herlihy Communications Professional Services for media coverage of housing report 4,273 4,273
2005 Ms Bernadette Andreosso Consultancy fees for "Ireland & Globalisation" Strategy report 7,000 7,000
Campus & Stadium Ireland Development Ltd
Year of Contract Supplier Purpose Estimated Cost Total Expenditure
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Up to December 2000 PricewaterhouseCoopers Feasibility studies 602,906
Up to December 2000 McCann Fitzgerald Legal Consultancy 13,346
Up to December 2000 Wilson Hartnell Public Relations 70,531
Up to December 2000 RIAI Architectural consultancy 19,046
Up to December 2000 Deloitte & Touche Tax Consultancy 15,872
National Millennium Committee
Year of Contract Supplier Purpose Estimated Cost Total Expenditure
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1999 BDO Simpson Xavier Consulting Detailed assessment of a proposal for a Millennium Tower (the old Jameson chimney at Smithfield in Dublin) 6,299
1999 to 2001 Peter Owens DDB Advertising/information campaign 413,047
1999 to 2001 CMS Marketing (Century Merchandising) Public Relations Work 392,883
1999 to 2001 Pembroke Communication Public Relations Work 107,350
2000 Irish Film & Television Network Millennium Event Guide 31,491
1999 to 2001 Fusio Limited Design, set up website 26,362
1999 to 2001 BFK Design Limited Design of the Millennium Logo, put the logo on disc for use by authorised bodies, and to create large backdrops for use at various Millennium launches 41,372
Referendum Commission (operated in 1998)
Year of Contract Supplier Purpose Estimated Cost Total Expenditure
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1998 Drury Communications PR Consultants on the Northern Ireland Referendum 2,367,098*
*(of which €141,731 was media consultancy management fee; the balance was sub-contractor/supplier expenditure via media consultants)
Communicating Europe
Year of Contract Supplier Purpose Estimated Cost Total Expenditure
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1997 International Music Event Europe Day Concert 34,854
1997 Patsy McArdle Production of Euro link column 9,523
Local Development (Transferred from Taoiseach's Vote in 1997)
Year of Contract Supplier Purpose Estimated Cost Total Expenditure
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1997 Keating & Associates Operational Programme for Urban & Rural Development 20,617
1997 Goodbody Economic Consultants External Evaluation of Operational Programme 75,975
1997 EPS Computer Systems Computer System for Local Development 35,831
Western Development (Transferred from Taoiseach's Vote in 1997)
Year of Contract Supplier Purpose Estimated Cost Total Expenditure
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1997 Brendan McKenna Updating Aran Islands 1,521
1997 Centre for Adult Education Public Services in Rural Areas 12,697
Devolution Commission (Transferred from Taoiseach's Vote in 1997)
Year of Contract Supplier Purpose Estimated Cost Total Expenditure
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1997 Lansdowne Market Research Survey on Attitudes to Local Government 62,523
Table 3: Number of Consultancy Contracts above €50,000.
Year Department of the Taoiseach
2000 1
2001 4
2002 1
2003 2
2004 2
2005 1

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