Written answers
Thursday, 11 December 2008
Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Consultancy Contracts
8:00 pm
Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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Question 81: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding all contracts for the years 2007 and 2008 with consultants in relation to the preparation of reports of any kind; the name of the consultants; the cost for each report; and if she will provide this information in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45850/08]
Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The information requested by the Deputy insofar as my Department is concerned is set out in the following tabular statement:
| 2007 | |||
| Name of Consultant | Cost | Name and Reason for Each Report | Current Position |
| Corporate Risk Strategies Ltd | €24,200 (incl VAT) | The provision of Health & Safety Active Monitoring Reports (Safety Audits) on each of the Department's eight buildings. The purpose of each Active Monitoring Report is to enable the Department to identify hazards and potential health and safety risks to employees of the Department as is required under Section 19 of the Safety, Health & Welfare at Work Act, 2005 | The Department is currently implementing the recommendations contained in the Reports |
| Mazars | €10,482 | Internal Audit Report of the Department's General Payments Systems | Completed in 2007 |
| RITS | €118,928 | Review of the Department's ICT Security. | Report delivered and recommendations being implemented |
| Vision Consulting Ltd. | €95,711 | Review of the national Employment Rights Authority (NERA) Information Services. | Report delivered and recommendations being implemented |
| Cawley Nea Ltd. | €43,894 | National Employment Rights Authority (NERA) "Awareness of & Attitudes Towards Employment Rights Barometer" Research. | Completed in 2007 |
| Farrell Grant Sparks | €17,000 | Third and Fourth (or final) payments for an Ex-Ante Evaluation of the European Social Fund co-funded Human Capital Investment Operational Programme. | Report completed in December 2007. |
| Vision Consulting Ltd | €186,334 | Report of "Findings and Service Insights" from Vision Market Study of Employee Callers for the National Employment Rights Authority to improve Employee Caller Awareness, Information Provision, Service and Satisfaction. | Completed |
| Background Information and Recommendations from Vision For The National Employment Rights Authority to improve Information Provision, Service, and Satisfaction. | Completed | ||
| Economic and Social Research institute (ESRI). | €84,232 | To carry out two national surveys relating on workplace bullying — one relating to employees and one relating to employers — inputting to the Bullying in the Workplace Survey Reports 2007. | The surveys were published in March 2007. |
| 2007 — continued | |||
| Name of Consultant | Cost | Name and Reason for Each Report | Current Position |
| Ove Arup & Partners t/a Arup Consulting Engineers | €28,814 | Review of the Regulation of Petroleum Handling and Storage Facilities. | Final Report delivered in July 2008. |
| Mairéad Carey B.L. | €6,050 | Legal Services in connection with functions of the Labour Court | Completed |
| John Gleeson S.C. | €960 | Legal Services in connection with functions of the Labour Court | Completed |
| Indecon Economic Consultants | €5,086.60 (Paid in 2007 — A total cost of €152,599 was divided equally between the Department of Enterprise, Trade & Employment, the Department of Health & Children and FÁS — €50,866.33 each.) | Study of Efficiency and Effectiveness of Vocational Training Services and Rehabilitation Training Services for Persons with a Disability provided by Specialist Training Providers | Completed in 2007. |
| Indecon Consultants | €2,000 | Part payment for a report called the Final Evaluation of the Leonardo II Programme in Ireland. (Indecon's contract was with the Department of Education and Science (DES). The total cost of the report was €52,041.10. Leargas, the agency that ran the Leonardo programme, paid €25,000 towards the report with the balance paid by the DES. The report was a requirement of the EU funding provided for the initiative.) | Complete 2007 |
| Indecon | €30,000(to Forfas as a 1/3 contribution to the cost of a study.) | Assessing the Implications for Industry in Ireland of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme to provide an assessment of the competitiveness impact of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme on Industry in Ireland | Report completed October 2007 |
| Millward Brown IMS | €44,790 | Market Research — overview of the company law compliance environment and the performance of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) in the discharge of its functions | Finalised |
| 2007 — continued | |||
| Name of Consultant | Cost | Name and Reason for Each Report | Current Position |
| PriceWaterhouseCoopers | €103,259 | Forensic Accounting Assignment for the ODCE. | Finalised |
| Dan Flinter | €8,643 | Facilitation of two workshops and Report to High Level Group on Business Regulation | Finished. |
| RPS Consultants | €9,575 | Research relating to the Interim Board of the National Consumer Agency's response to the White Paper "Delivering a Sustainable Energy Future for Ireland". | Completed |
| Goodbody Economic Consultants | €23,595 | Review of the Wage Subsidy Scheme | Interim Payment — Report completed in 2008. |
| WRC Social and Economic Consultants | €26,632 | Research Report on Acquired Disability and Employment | Interim Payment — Report completed in 2008. |
| 2008 | |||
| Name of Consultant | Cost | Name and Reason for Each Report | Current Position |
| Institute of Public Administration (IPA) | €19,867 | Report and Recommendations from the Consultation Process with Staff in the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment. | Report completed and delivered in June 2008. As a consequence of the report an internal action plans has now been agreed on how we can improve in areas such as communications, teamwork and leadership. |
| Mazars | €10,482 | Internal Audit Report on the operations of the Department's Payroll System. | Completed in 2008 |
| Contractauditline (CAL) | €19,820 (excluding VAT) | Productive Sector Operational Programme (PSOP) Managing Authority Lookback Audit (Part 1)Productive Sector Operational Programme Managing Authority Lookback Audit (Part 2) | Report due by 15 December, 2008 |
| €16,480 (excluding VAT) | [The PSOP is an EU co-funded Operational Programme under the 2000-2006 Structural Funds.] | Report due by 27 February, 2009 | |
| KPMG | €273,460 | Report of an assessment of a named company's restructuring plan. | Report completed 11 April 2008. |
| Indecon Economic Consultants | €185,408 | Value for Money Review of Science Foundation Ireland — Part of the Government's Value for Money & Policy Review Initiative | Report published July 2008 |
| 2008 — continued | |||
| Name of Consultant | Cost | Name and Reason for Each Report | Current Position |
| IPA | €3,630 | Quality Assessment of Value for Money Review of Science Foundation Ireland — per D/Finance guidelines | Review completed In 2008 |
| CIRCA Consultants | €51,182 (Shared equally between D/ETE and Forfás) | Forfás commissioned evaluation of Ireland's membership of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) | Awaiting finalization. Publication of report is anticipated by the end of January 2009 |
| CIRCA Consultants, SIA Group and International Panel of Experts. | €105,082 (Shared equally between D/ETE and Forfás | Forfás commissioned evaluation of Discover Science and Engineering Programme | Report has been completed. Publication is anticipated by the end of December 2008 |
| Version 1 (Work started in 2007 and was completed in 2008) | €20,364 | Business Process Review (BPR) of the Department's Insolvency Payments Section. | Report delivered and recommendations being implemented. |
| Trigraph Professional Services | €2,995 | Review of Department's ICT Project Management procedures and practices. | Report delivered and recommendations being implemented |
| RITS | €17,669 | 3 ICT Technical Reports on laptop encryption, the Department's financials application and scans of on-line systems. | Reports delivered and recommendations being implemented |
| RITS | €2,580 | Report of the forensic analysis of the ESF website. | Analysis underway and report due shortly. |
| Computer Associates | €13,310 | Review of Department's ICT Backup Systems | Report delivered and recommendations being implemented |
| Ove Arup & Partners t/a Arup Consulting Engineers | €115,257 | Review of the Regulation of Petroleum Handling and Storage Facilities. | Final Report July 2008 |
| Cawley Nea Ltd | €29,645 | National Employment Rights Authority "Awareness of & Attitudes Towards Employment Rights Barometer" Research. | Completed |
| Mairéad Carey B.L. | €7,260 | Legal Services in connection with functions of the Labour Court | Completed |
| IQ Content | €41,261 | Website evaluation Report | Completed in June 2008 |
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