Written answers
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
Consultancy Contracts
9:00 pm
Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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Question 329: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total amount of expenditure on consultancy by his Department in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011; the numbers of consultants engaged by his Department in those years; the names of the consultancy companies awarded contracts; and the steps which have been taken to reduce the expenditure on consultancy and the reliance on consultants by his Department in these years and for the future. [25549/12]
Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Details of the information on consultancies requested by the Deputy for the period from 2008 to 2011 are set out in the following tables. My Department has, in line with Government policy, taken measures to reduce the level of expenditure on external consultancies. The number of consultancies undertaken has been significantly reduced and are undertaken on the basis of necessity and in instances where it is not possible to conduct the work in-house having regard to the nature of the work and the skills required.
2011
| Name of Company/Payee | Purpose | Cost (€) |
| Mr. John Travers | Facilitation of Code of Practice for Grocery Goods Undertakings (continuation of services provided in 2010) | €36,905 |
| Reidy Brophy Limited | Facilitation of a focus group with business to develop a web portal on regulation affecting businesses | €3,570 |
| Connolly Lowe | Legal Accounting Assignment for ODCE | €8,963 |
| Remy Farrell | Counsel's Opinion for ODCE | €545 |
| Una Ní Raifeartaigh | Opinion and Advices for ODCE | €1,210 |
| Una Ní Raifeartaigh | Opinion and Advices for ODCE | €4,840 |
| Karole Cuddihy | Legal Proofing of document for ODCE | €968 |
| Una Ní Raifeartaigh | Opinion and Advices for ODCE | €454 |
| Capital for Enterprise Ltd. | Design of Temporary Partial Credit Guarantee Scheme | €72,074 |
| Fitzpatrick Associates Economic Consultants | Assessment of the Productive Sector Operational Programme, 2000 – 2006 | €15,730 |
| Leo Burnett | Design work for publicity campaign re increase in National Minimum Wage Rate | €847 |
| UCD (Dr Frank Walsh) | Review of ERO and REA Wage Setting Mechanisms | €15,000 |
| Keating & Associates | To provide NERA with PR Consultancy Services re their information campaign on employment rights matters. | €18,770 |
| Greater Heights Ltd | Learning needs Analysis(NERA) | €15,645 |
| Mairéad Carey | Case Summaries for The Labour Court Annual Report 2010 | €7,889 |
| Rits | IT Security assessment of new hosting site established in the Revenue Hosting Centre, John's Road | €15,452 |
| IBM | Lotus Notes healthcheck | €10,239 |
| Maxima Ireland | Virtualisation Strategy Review – a short high-level assessment of the future opportunities available to the Department to virtualise some of its servers with a view to making cost savings. | €8,276 |
| Declan Murphy | Legal advice | €605 |
| Kilroys Solicitors | Legal advice in relation to Export Credit Insurance Recoveries | €9,231 |
| Sia Management Group | DJEI Strategic Development Plan facilitation and consultancy support | €15,089 |
| Total | €262,302 |
2010
| Name of Company/Payee | Purpose | Cost (€) |
| Mr. John Travers | Facilitation of Code of Practice for Grocery Goods Undertakings | €24,805 |
| SIRA Consulting BV | Provision of training in the Standard Cost Model to facilitate measurement of administrative burdens | €9,950 |
| SIRA Consulting BV | Support and Quality Assurance in respect of the measurement of administrative burdens | €8,531 |
| Capgemini Consulting | Provision of training in use of the National Application Database – a system developed by the European Commission to assist countries in the collation and interrogation of results arising from their cross-Government administrative burden measurements | €4,963 |
| Jacobs and Associates | Training support in the Standard Cost Model methodology for the measurement of administrative burdens in Ireland | €3,300 |
| Connolly Lowe | Consultancy – Accountancy for ODCE | €12,778 |
| Caroline Costello | Counsel's Opinion for ODCE | €424 |
| Paul Anthony McDermott | Counsel's Opinion for ODCE | €3,933 |
| Brian Murray | Counsel's Opinion for ODCE | €5,288 |
| Paul O'Higgins | Counsel's Opinion for ODCE | €3,933 |
| Nessa Cahill | Counsel's Opinion for ODCE | €1,892 |
| Tom Mallon | Counsel's Opinion for ODCE | €557 |
| Brian Murray | Counsel's Opinion for ODCE | €4,564 |
| Cyril O' Neill | Consultancy - Accountancy for ODCE | €2,056 |
| Remy Farrell | Counsel's Opinion for ODCE | €424 |
| Remy Farrell | Counsel's Opinion for ODCE | €333 |
| Paul Anthony McDermott | Counsel's Opinion for ODCE | €1,210 |
| Paul O'Higgins | Counsel's Opinion for ODCE | €1,210 |
| Catherine Donnelly | Counsel's Opinion for ODCE | €4,235 |
| Remy Farrell | Counsel's Opinion for ODCE | €3,237 |
| Horwath Bastow Charleton | Consultancy - Accountancy for ODCE | €1,252 |
| Nessa Cahill | Counsel's Opinion for ODCE | €3,896 |
| Mr. Eoghan O'Briain | To assist the Dept. in the technical aspects of Emissions Trading, Climate Change and other related Environment work | €8,785 |
| Keating & Associates | To provide NERA with PR Consultancy Services re their information campaign on employment rights matters | €29,011 |
| Brendan Moran | Computer consultancy services (NERA) | €3,085 |
| Total | €143,302 |
2009
| Name of Company/Payee | Purpose | Cost (€) |
| Finbar Flood | Enquiry commissioned under Section 38(2) of the 1990 Industrial Relations Act | €20,000 |
| Tom Walsh | To provide technical and research support to the Department in relation to certain aspects of occupational health and safety and chemicals policy | €8,230 |
| Keating & Associates | To provide NERA with PR Consultancy Services | €20,303 |
| Mazars | Consultancy services to NERA business planning | €3,645 |
| RITS | Consultancy services on Data Protection to NERA | €3,332 |
| Brendan Moran | IT Consultancy Services NERA/ development of Information call centre solution | €10,935 |
| Brendan Moran | IT Consultancy Services NERA/ development of T&S and Accounting database | €5,833 |
| Hewlett Packard Ireland | IT consultancy NERA | €4,538 |
| Kilroys Solicitors | Provision of legal advice on Export Credit Insurance issues (as instances arise) | €32,336 |
| Gartner Ireland | Access to international ICT analysts and research | €41,352 |
| Trigraph Professional Services | Project Management Consultancy | €4022 |
| Version 1 | Analyse Oracle software usage and license compliance | €7,560 |
| Remy Farrell | Counsel's Opinion | €16,766 |
| Brian Murray | Counsel's Opinion | €5,421 |
| Philip Rahn | Counsel's Opinion | €3,353 |
| Paul O'Higgins | Counsel's Opinion | €18,225 |
| Paul Anthony McDermott | Counsel's Opinion | €18,225 |
| Nessa Cahill | Counsel's Opinion | €3,130 |
| Cyril O'Neill | Legal Costs Assessment for ODCE | €3,874 |
| Professor Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh, UCD | Provision of independent accountancy advice regarding specific company law issues | €8,020 |
| Michael Henry | Consultancy review of the draft Report on Health and Safety Information Obligations | €851 |
| OLM Consultancy | Consultancy advice on the draft Report on Health and Safety Information Obligations | €1,094 |
| Scannell Solutions Ltd | Consultancy advice on the draft Report on Health and Safety Information Obligations | €365 |
| AD Little | Review of current supports to encourage the exploitation of IP emanating from Higher Education research | €30,000 (Departmental contribution) |
| Total | €271,410 |
2008
| Name of Company/Payee | Purpose | Cost (€) |
| EPS Consulting | To measure the administrative burdens arising in Company Law, Employment Law and Health and Safety Law in order to contribute to the 25% target on reducing administrative burden for business | €58,249 |
| Scannell Solutions | To identify a list of priority information obligations arising from health and safety legislation for measurement in order to contribute to the 25% target on reducing administrative burden for business | €5,143 |
| Arthur Cox | To Identify a list of priority information obligations arising from company law for measurement in order to contribute to the 25% target on administrative burden reduction | €2,226 |
| UCD School of Law | To list the information obligations arising from employment law in order to contribute to the 25% target on reducing administrative burden for business | €4,650 |
| NUI Galway | To list the information obligations arising from company law in order to contribute to the 25% target on reducing administrative burden for business | €5,102 |
| University of Limerick | To list the information obligations arising in health and safety law in order to contribute to the 25% target on reducing administrative burden for business | €4,616 |
| Bizmeasures Ltd | To test the feasibility of implementing the filing of XBRL financial statements | €31,683 |
| Tom Ferris | To carry out a measurement of specific administrative burdens identified by the High Level Group on Business Regulation in order to contribute to the 25% target on reducing administrative burden for business | €5,707 |
| Price Waterhouse Coopers | Assistance in ODCE investigation | €137,772 |
| KPMG | Assessment of a named company's restructuring plan | €273,460 |
| Institute of Public Administration (IPA) | To examine feedback from staff with a view to formulating an action plan to improve their working environment and thus help them to contribute more effectively to achieving my Department's business objectives | €19,867 |
| CIRCA Consultants, SIA Group and International Panel of Experts | Review of the efficacy of the DSE Science Awareness programme by a panel of international experts | €105,082(Shared equally between the Department and Forfás) |
| CIRCA Consultants | The review was undertaken as part of initial Government decision in 2004 upon joining EMBL | €51,182 (Shared equally between the Department and Forfás). |
| DHR Communications | Dissemination of EQUAL Programme (PR) | €9,547 |
| Computer Associates | To review the Department's Data Backup and Storage environment and produce a report with recommendations | €13,750 |
| Keating Consulting Ltd | NERA (PR) | €63,189 |
| Ellard Browne Ltd | NERA (Advertising) | €605 |
| Cawley Nea Ltd | NERA (Advertising) | €27,410 |
| Tom Walsh | To provide advice to the Department on the development of occupational health and safety policy and legislation and chemicals policy | €91,538 |
| Arup Consulting Engineers | To support the Department in its review of Review of Dangerous Substances legislation | €116,487 |
| Kilroy Solicitors | Legal Advice on Export Credit Insurance issues (as instances arise) | €16,263 |
| Version 1 | To prepare a report on the Insolvency BPR | €13,177 |
| Version 1 | To determine the feasibility of options for the upgrade of the RIR system | €10,328 |
| RITS | Security Advice | €38,535 |
| Gartner Ireland | Access to international ICT analysts and research | €41,352 |
| IQ Content Ltd | Review of Department's Website | €41,261 |
| IPA | Quality Assessment of SFI VFM Review | €3,630 |
| Carr Communications | Communications (CRO) | €25,593 |
| Open Interface | Website accessibility advice (CRO) | €3,993 |
| Grant Thornton | Procurement and business solution advice (CRO) | €71,874 |
| Millward Brown/IMS | Market Research for ODCE | €15,898 |
| Mathias Kelly QC | Legal advice – investigations under section 19 of the Companies Act 1990 | €167,171 |
| Mary Donnelly | Research paper in connection with the Company Law Review Group's 2007 Annual Report | €500 |
| Experian Ireland | Provision of statistical analysis of returns to the Companies Registration Office | €182 |
| PricewaterhouseCoopers | Media Research for the Advisory Group on Media Mergers | €26,965 |
| Emily Gibson BL | Legal Services for the Advisory Group on Media Mergers | €5,596 |
| Form Creative Ltd | Advertising campaign for Work/Life Balance Day 2008 | €4,994 |
| Form Creative Ltd | Advertisement in Sunday Tribune re: Panel of Consultants | €3,179 |
| Achilles Procurement Services Ltd | Consultancy – NERA case Management system | €602 |
| Mazars | Audit services | €4,193 |
| Remy Farrell | Counsel's Opinion | €6,595 |
| Douglas Clarke | Counsel's Opinion | €1,029 |
| John Hennessy | Counsel's Opinion | €2,541 |
| Connolly Lowe | Legal Costs Assessment for ODCE | €535 |
| Cyril O'Neill | Legal Costs Assessment for ODCE | €16,215 |
| Total | €1,491,408 |
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