Written answers
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Department of An Taoiseach
Consultancy Reports
9:00 pm
Joe McHugh (Donegal North East, Fine Gael)
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Question 93: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a report of the number consultancy reports commissioned by his Department between 1997 and January 2011; the cost of commissioning each report; if he will provide information on the implementation of recommendations set out in each report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22604/11]
Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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The following table details consultancy reports commissioned by my Department from 2000 to end August 2011.
Many of the recommendations in these reports have been acted upon and others continue to be under active consideration by the relevant Minister or Department. If any particular recommendation is of interest to the Deputy I will have the up to date position clarified for him.
| Department | ||
| January 2011 - end August 2011 | ||
| Name of Consultant | Details of engagement | € |
| QTS Limited | Health and Safety Consultancy H&S Safety Statement 2011 | € 1,270.50 |
| 2010 | ||
| Nil | ||
| 2009 | ||
| Name of Consultant | Details of engagement | € |
| QTS Limited | Health and Safety Consultancy H&S Safety Statement 2009 | € 1,701.00 |
| QTS Limited | Health & Safety Consultancy H&S Safety Statement 2010. | € 1,275.75 |
| 2008 | ||
| Name of Consultant | Details of engagement | € |
| QTS Limited | Annual Risk Assessment - health and safety | € 1,694.00 |
| Ipsos Mori | Phase 2 of 2007 Quality Customer Service Survey | € 9,952.25 |
| Raymond Burke Consulting | Consultancy Fee for Value for money review of NESDO | € 3,375.90 |
| 2007 | ||
| Name of Consultant | Details of engagement | € |
| QTS Limited | Safety Statement and Risk Assessment | € 2,541.00 |
| 2006 | ||
| Name of Consultant | Details of engagement | € |
| Watson Wyatt | Employee Opinion Survey - 1st and 2nd Tranche | € 26,505.00 |
| 2005 | ||
| Nil | ||
| 2004 | ||
| Name of Consultant | Details of engagement | € |
| Watson Wyatt | Employee Opinion Survey 2003 | € 20,201 |
| 2003 | ||
| Name of Consultant | Details of engagement | € |
| Watson Wyatt | Employee Opinion Survey 2003 | € 21,300 |
| 2002 | ||
| Name of Consultant | Details of engagement | € |
| HOSCA Management Consultants | Employee Opinion Survey | € 12,077 |
| 2001 | ||
| Nil | ||
| 2000 | ||
| Nil |
| Organisational Review Programme | ||
| 2010 | ||
| Mercer (Ireland) Ltd | Staff surveys for the Organisational Review Programme | € 23,595.00 |
| 2009 | ||
| IPSOS MORI | Organisational Review Programme Reports Covering 4 Organisations - on Deployment of Initial Survey | € 34,626.29 |
| 2008 | ||
| Hudson Talent Management | Survey, deployment, analysis and reporting for the Organisational Review Programme | € 45,552.34 |
| Industrial Relations | ||
| 2008 | ||
| Name of Consultant | Details of engagement | € |
| Grant Thornton | Forensic accounting services in respect of issues pertaining to an industrial relations dispute at Aer Lingus (the services were commissioned by the National Implementation Body to assist in resolving industrial relations issues at Aer Lingus). | € 75,119.82 |
| 2007 | ||
| Name of Consultant | Details of engagement | € |
| Indecon | A Review of the Irish Annuities Market (The Review was undertaken under the auspices of the Partnership Pensions Review Group which was established under the terms of Towards 2016). | € 133,165.60 |
| 2006 | ||
| Name of Consultant | Details of engagement | € |
| Fitzpatrick Associates | Study on Progressing the Special Initiatives under Sustaining Progress | € 18,604.00 |
| 2005 | ||
| Name of Consultant | Details of engagement | € |
| Fitzpatrick Associates | Research project on the Special Initiatives under Sustaining Progress | € 18,604 |
| Grant Thornton | Report of the National Implementation Board re cost and implications of Proposed Amendments to Labour Court recommendations on An Post (in the context of an industrial relations dispute at the company) | € 60,000 |
| 2000 | ||
| Name of Consultant | Details of engagement | € |
| ESRI | Phase II Basic Income Study | € 16,789 |
| Rory O'Donnell & Paul Teague | Evaluation of Partnership | € 50,790 |
| Public Service Modernisation funded through the Change Management Fund, Department of Finance | ||
| 2009 | ||
| O'Neill Amarach Consultants LTD | Business Customer Satisfaction Survey | € 23,752.02 |
| IPSOS MORI | Survey of Civil Service Customers | € 68,185.80 |
| Fitzpatrick Associates | Garda Boundaries Realignment Project | € 46,413.00 |
| Economist Intelligence Unit | To conduct an independent Review of the Economic Regulatory Environment to compare the performance of Irish sectoral regulators against their international counterparts | € 25,632.71 |
| 2008 | ||
| IPSOS MORI | Compiling and presentation of Civil Service Customer Satisfaction survey | € 6,9817 |
| OECD | OECD system level review of Irish Civil Service | € 60,000.75 |
| Economist Intelligence Unit | To conduct an independent Review of the Economic Regulatory Environment to compare the performance of Irish sectoral regulators against their international counterparts | € 382,866.76 |
| Isolde Goggins and Gillian Lauder | Review of the Operation of Regulatory Impact analysis (RIA). In line with the terms of Towards 2016, an independent review of the operation of RIA was commissioned to assess the effectiveness of the current RIA model across Departments. | € 85,305.00 |
| 2007 | ||
| OECD | OECD system level review of Irish Civil Service | € 300,010.00 |
| Fitzpatrick Associates | Research project to evaluate the impact of the introduction of the Customer Charter process in the Irish Civil Service | € 13,552.00 |
| Ipsos Mori | Survey of Civil Service customers (general public) to determine attitudes towards and experiences of dealing with Civil Service Organisations. | € 9,952.25 |
| Isolde Goggin and Gillian Lauder | Review of the Operation of Regulatory Impact Analysis | € 23,595.00 |
| R.A. Consulting | Employee Opinion Survey 2007 | € 18,081.00 |
| 2006 | ||
| Economic and Social Research Institute | Business Attitudes Survey | € 80,000.00 |
| Fitzpatrick Associates | Customer Charter Evaluation | € 40,656 |
| Institute of Public Administration | Project to map regulatory framework in Ireland | € 13,068 |
| Ipsos Mori Ireland | Surveys of general public and business customers | € 17,847 |
| 2005 | ||
| Institute of Public Administration | Regulatory Mapping project | € 37,466 |
| Ipsos Mori Ireland | Market research on Customer Satisfaction | € 16,486 |
| 2004 | ||
| McCann Fitzgerald Solicitors | Research and preparation of report - Redress for Civil Service Customers | € 76,895 |
| 2003 | ||
| Lansdowne Market Research Ltd | Irish Civil Service Customer Satisfaction Survey Report | € 21,447 |
| 2002 | ||
| NGM Market Research Ltd | Communicating Change and Modernisation in the Civil Service - Report | € 25,181 |
| Lansdowne Market Research Ltd | Irish Civil Service - Customer Satisfaction Survey Report | € 35,804 |
| 2001 | ||
| Name of Consultant | Details of engagement | € |
| Dr. Jane Pillinger | Consultancy SMI | € 38,823 |
| PA Consulting Group | Evaluation of SMI | € 349,306 |
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