Written answers
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Departmental Reports
9:00 pm
Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 213: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of experts' and consultants' reports her Department commissioned during 2008; the cost of each report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33899/09]
Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department commissioned twenty-one experts' or consultants' reports in 2008. Details in relation to these reports are set out in the following table:
| Title of Report Commissioned | Name of Consultant or Expert | Cost | |
| 1 | Report of an assessment of a named company's restructuring plan. | KPMG | €273,460 |
| 2 | Report and Recommendations from the Consultation Process with Staff in the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment | Institute of Public Administration (IPA) | €18,000 |
| 3 | Evaluation Report on Department's Website | IQ Content Ltd | €41,261 |
| 4 | Evaluation of Discover Science and Engineering (DSE) Programme | CIRCA Consultants, SIA Group and International Panel of Experts | €105,082 (Shared equally between D/ETE and Forfás) |
| 5 | Productive Sector Operational Programme (PSOP) Managing Authority Lookback Audit (Parts 1 & 2) | Contract-auditline (CAL) | €38,130 |
| 6 | Conduct an Equality survey under the ESF Co-Funded EQUAL Community Initiative | Social and Market Research | €23,850 |
| 7 | Audit of DAWN project under the ESF Co-Funded EQUAL Community Initiative | Ernst and Young | €25,090 |
| 8 | Review and Assessment of the ESF Co-Funded EQUAL Community Initiative | PA Consulting | €61,595 |
| 9 | Evaluation of Ireland's membership of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) | CIRCA Consultants | €51,183 (Shared jointly by DETE & Forfás) |
| 10 | Measuring Administrative Burdens in Company Law, Employment Law and Health & Safety Law | EPS Consulting | €58,249 |
| 11 | Prioritising Health & Safety Information Obligations | Scannell Solutions | €4,538 |
| 12 | Prioritising Health & Safety Information Obligations; additional review | Scannell Solutions | €605 |
| 13 | Prioritising Information Obligations in Company Law | Arthur Cox | €2,226 |
| 14 | Listing of Information Obligations in Employment Law | UCD School of Law | €4,650 |
| 15 | Listing of Information Obligations in Company Law | NUI Galway | €5,102 |
| 16 | Listing of Information Obligations in Health & Safety Law | University of Limerick | €4,616 |
| 17 | Provision of Statistical Analysis for the High Level Group on Business Regulation Report | Experian Ireland Ltd | €182 |
| 18 | Three Standard Cost Model measurements for the High Level Group on Business Regulation | Tom Ferris | €5,707 |
| 19 | Report of the Advisory Group on Media Mergers | As part of its work the Advisory Group commissioned Price Waterhouse Coopers and Emily Gibson BL to carry out specific studies in relation to the Group's terms of reference. | €33,732 |
| 20 | Companies Registration Office Business Process Engineering Review | Grant Thornton | €71,874 |
| 21 | Companies Registration Office XBRL Feasibility Study | Bizmeasures Ltd. | €31,683 |
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