Written answers
Tuesday, 25 October 2005
Department of Health and Children
Consultancy Contracts
9:00 pm
Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 294: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the name and location of each recruitment agency employed in recruiting personnel for the PPARS programme; the number recruited by each such agency to this project; the amount drawn down by each such agency for persons employed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30657/05]
Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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I understand from the Health Service Executive that specialised skills were required for this project. Efforts were made to recruit Irish staff on the payroll in the first instance. This did not prove successful. The project team then sought to secure these skills from Irish-based recruitment firms, and while there was limited success it became necessary to source resources further afield; the UK market enabled the deficit to be filled.
The following is the information I received from the Health Service Executive.
| Name of recruitment firm | Location | Number recruited | Total amount drawn including VAT |
| â'¬ | |||
| Access Consulting | England | 1 | 7,394.96 |
| Ark International Recruitment | England | 1 | 478,139.98 |
| Blackmore Group Assets Ltd. | England | 7 | 1,968,982.10 |
| Computer Futures Solutions | Ireland | 3 | 62,920.00 |
| Diagonal Consulting Ltd. | England | 1 | 277,245.99 |
| Divine Solutions (UK) Ltd. | England | 1 | 191,358.00 |
| EDS Ireland Ltd. | Ireland | 1 | 115,809.65 |
| File Travel Overseas Ltd. | England | 1 | 15,730.00 |
| Fusion Business Solutions | Ireland | 5 | 1,183,245.15 |
| Global Resourcing | England | 1 | 638,257.93 |
| MSB International PLC | England | 2 | 1,379,668.23 |
| Portland Resourcing Ltd. | England | 1 | 426,644.11 |
| Williams McKinley | England | 1 | 63,222.44 |
| Square One Resources Ltd. | England | 2 | 86,774.00 |
| 6,895,392.54 | |||
| Note: Recruited Resources worked for varying durations between January 1999 and September 30th 2005. |
Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 295: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of international personnel recruited for work on the PPARS project since its inception; if any international personnel were required to travel to Ireland on a regular basis to deal with their work; if so, the details of destination, frequency of travel, cost and so on in each case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30658/05]
Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The following is the information I have received from the Health Service Executive.
| Name of recruitment firm | Number of international personnel | Resource nationality (see Note 1) | Travel paid | Comment |
| Access Consulting | 1 | UK | Yes | Short term assignment. Flight from UK. |
| Ark International Recruitment | 1 | New Zealand | No | |
| Blackmore Group Assets Ltd. | 7 | UK, South Africa, Australia | No | |
| Computer Futures Solutions | 1 | UK | No | |
| Diagonal Consulting Ltd. | 1 | UK | No | |
| Divine Solutions (UK) Ltd. | 1 | UK | No | |
| File Travel Overseas Ltd. | 1 | South Africa | No | |
| Global Resourcing | 1 | South Africa | No | |
| MSB International PLC | 2 | UK, South Africa | No | |
| Portland Resourcing Ltd. | 1 | UK | No | |
| Williams McKinley | 1 | UK | Yes | Weekly return flight to UK. |
| Square One Resources Ltd. | 2 | UK | Yes for one individual | Weekly return flight to UK. |
| Note 1: Resources were sourced through Irish or UK Recruitment offices with project base agreed as Sligo. The nationality of individuals was not relevant to the contract and is not formally known. Bids from recruitment agencies were to perform work in Sligo. |
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