Written answers
Wednesday, 17 December 2008
Department of Education and Science
Departmental Expenditure
8:00 pm
Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 623: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when this Deputy will receive a full reply to Parliamentary Question No. 612 of 18 November 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46906/08]
Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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The deputy will be aware that I provided comprehensive information with regard to money paid to consultants from 2003 to end October 2008 and that I indicated that information relating to consultancy expenditure from 2000 to 2002 is not readily available and would involve an inordinate amount of administrative time to compile. The relevant material is archived and is not in a format which would allow the data to be readily compiled from the original documentation. However I include a table compiled previously by my Department in relation to expenditure including expenditure on consultancies for the years in question for the Deputy's information.
| Year 2000 | ||
| Consultants, Experts, Advisors | Purpose | Cost |
| £ | ||
| C.Sheffield | Employee Assistance Service Review | 4,090 |
| CRC, Trinity College | Evaluation of Early School Leavers Initiative | 52,810.89 |
| CRC, Trinity College | Preparation of National Youth Work Development Plan | 54,300 |
| Crowleys — DFK | ESF verification report | 70,654.81 |
| Deloitte & Touche | Organisational review | 35,214 |
| Dennehy Associates | PR Consultancy | 19,360 |
| Dermot Rochford | Review of the Pilot Employee Assistance Scheme | 8,894 |
| Dermot Rochford | Staffing resource and organisational needs of NQAI, HETAC and FETAC | 14,336.08 |
| Dermot Rochford | Staffing needs of admin office in Tourism College, Killybegs | 4,089.90 |
| Eileen Costello | Consultancy — Inventory System | 1,625 |
| ERC, St. Pat's Drumcondra | Research on 8 — 15 Early School Leaver Initiative | 111,117 |
| Ernst & Young | Review of Work in the Building Unit DES | 15,137 |
| Eustace Patterson Ltd | Review of Gaisce | 15,157 |
| Farrell Grant Sparks | Report on Tralee IT under Section 20 of RTC Act 1992 | 32,017.18 |
| Farrell Grant Sparks | PPP Project Launch | 18,297.79 |
| Farrell Grant Sparks/A&L Goodbody | Pilot PPP Education Projects (Five PPP Schools and Cork School of Music) | 103,665.99 |
| Inishowen Technology | School information and communication technology | 15,695 |
| Lesley Dee | Orchard Cope Foundation | 5,075 |
| Noel Lindsay | Saving & loan fund for adult & continuing education | 2,000 |
| NUI — Maynooth | Adult Education — Green & White Papers | 35,000 |
| Oliver Freaney & Co | 3rd Level Finance accountancy | 19,950 |
| Philip Lee Solicitors | Consultancy -Vet School | 29,34.25 |
| Prospectus | Business Planning and Partnership in DES | 17,949 |
| Prospectus | Review of Special Education | 26,645 |
| Prospectus | Staff survey on internal communications | 23,262 |
| Seamus Ó hUallacháin | Interim Review of Institutes of Technology | 1,100 |
| Sean Cromien | Review of Department of Education operations & structures | 16,500 |
| Todd Architects | Masterplan — Portlaoise | 59,508 |
| Tony Bromwell | Review of Safety Procedures in Lisnagry, Co.Limerick | 3,534 |
| WRC Social&EconomicConsults | Review of VTOS | 11,654 |
| WRC Social&EconomicConsults | Women's Education Initiative | 20,100 |
| WRC Social&EconomicConsults | Improving Effectiveness of VTOS | 29,140 |
| Total | 850,812.89 |
| Year 2001 | ||
| Consultants, Experts, Advisors | Purpose | Cost |
| € | ||
| Anne Colgan | DES Task Force on Autism | 10,000.00 |
| Conor Galvin/ Bryn Holmes | Research Consultancy on ICT Usage in Schools | 5,078.95 |
| Deloitte & Touche | Business Analysis & Development of the Financial Management Function | 88,854.00 |
| Deloitte & Touche | Specification and selection of FMS System | 42,418.00 |
| Deloitte&Touche/A&L Goodbody | Pilot PPP Education Projects (National Maritime College) | 336,480.00 |
| Dennehy Associates | PR Consultancy | 126,338.94 |
| Dermot Rochford | VEC staffing study | 85,982.85 |
| Dominic McCanny | Investigation for Personnel Unit (DES) | 2,618.75 |
| Educational Research Centre | Evaluation of the sole use of the answer questions in Apprentice Tests | 47,989.78 |
| Elizabeth Waters | Lifelong Learning Consultation | 13,500.00 |
| Eustace Patterson Ltd | Contribution to study of FIT | 8,853.71 |
| Farrell Grant Sparks | Financial advice re: European Investment Bank refinancing of PP Projects | 63,000.00 |
| Farrell Grant Sparks/A&L Goodbody | Report on the Strategic Development Site for education & health purposes | 120,625.12 |
| Farrell Grant Sparks/A&L Goodbody | Five PPP Schools & Cork School of Music | 164,537.10 |
| Gartner Group | Research Advisory Services | 33,065.13 |
| Institute of Leisure & Amenity (ILAM) | PE Halls | 1,061.74 |
| Jonathan Wliiams | Editing of reports | 886.73 |
| Jordan Akustik | Cork School of Music | 7,102.91 |
| Kevin Leonard | Management Consultancy NEPS Administration | 5,325.64 |
| McCann Fitzgerald | Seminar on Public Procurement | 4,207.38 |
| McIver Consulting | Review of PLC Sector | 88,722.00 |
| Michael Collins and Associates | Architectural advice | 32,886.22 |
| National Women's Council | Technical support for education equality initiative | 106,072.15 |
| Niall Fitsimons & Co. | Site Report on St. Finbarr's Farranferris | 5,561.45 |
| Price Waterhouse Coopers | Review of financial guidelines | 11,995.03 |
| Prospectus | Internal Customer Action Plan and Business Planning | 7,618.43 |
| Sean O Fiachra | OECD INES network C — developing a new governing structure for ERC | 10,270.89 |
| Tony Bromwell | Review of Safety Procedures in Lisnagry, Co. Limerick | 2,441.71 |
| WRC Social&EconomicConsults | Women's Education Initiative | 10,801.98 |
| WRC Social&EconomicConsults | Independent assessment of the young people's facilities and services fund | 29,010.98 |
| Total | 1,473,307.57 |
| Year 2002 | ||
| Consultants, Experts, Advisors | Purpose | Cost |
| € | ||
| A & L Goodbody | PPP Projects | 3,840.79 |
| AHEAD | Review of disability needs in further education | 38,000.00 |
| Aine Hyland | Preparation of Eurydice Dossier | 3,174.00 |
| Anne Tuffy | Report on European Schools | 7,180.86 |
| Cynthia Deane | Educational Disadvantage Forum | 5,050.00 |
| Deloitte&Touche/A&L Goodbody | Pilot PPP Education Project (National Maritime College) | 98,500.00 |
| Deloitte & Touche | Verification Programme for ESF-aided Programmes 2000-2001 VEC sector | 21,454.51 |
| Dennehy Associates | PR Consultancy | 38,443.65 |
| Dermot Rochford | Study of VEC staffing structure & job evaluation of librarian (St Catherines) | 4,830.00 |
| Dominic McCanny | Investigation for Personnel Unit DES | 523.75 |
| Eustace Patterson Ltd | Contribution to study of FIT | 7,682.00 |
| Helen Leonard | Survey to evaluate pay of library staff in St Catherine's | 3,807.36 |
| Irish Project Supervisors Ltd | Report: Health & Safety Spec & Risk Assessment for window cleaning | 3,810.05 |
| John Coolahan | Preparation of Eurydice Dossier | 8,583.00 |
| John Coolahan | OECD Report on Teachers | 6,300.00 |
| Mazars Consulting | Corepay support | 22,997.18 |
| Mazars McIver | Assessment of staffing requirement of National Adult Learning Council | 4,695.00 |
| McIver Consulting | Review of PLC sector | 48,164.00 |
| National Women's Council | Technical support for education equality initiative | 87,000.00 |
| Occupational Health Consultants | Asbestos lecture | 751.73 |
| Professor Iseult McCarthy | Art Teachers Diploma Review | 7,503.82 |
| Professor Thomas Mitchell | Work for the Irish Academy for the Performing Arts | 3,900.00 |
| Project Management Limited | Pilot Schools Inventory Project | 1,092,749.00 |
| Sean Glenane | OECD INES Project | 2,933.14 |
| University Limerick (Frank McGourty) | Research on Laboratory Design & Equipment | 104,055.00 |
| Vivian Cassells | Report on European Schools | 7,180.86 |
| Total | 1,633,109.70 |
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