Written answers

Wednesday, 17 October 2012

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Consultancy Contracts

Photo of Mary Lou McDonaldMary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a list of all companies or persons providing an external professional service to his Department such as ICT, legal advice, advertising, project management and including any other external professional service not listed; the amount invoiced by each company to him over the past 12 months, in tabular form. [45332/12]

Photo of Eamon GilmoreEamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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My Department engages professional services in a number of areas where the required skills are not available in-house and it is more cost-effective to source them externally. Details of payments in the period in question are included in the tables below in respect of Vote 27 (International Cooperation) and Vote 28 (Foreign Affairs and Trade).

Vote 28 Foreign Affairs and Trade

External Professional Services

2011/2012

Trainer Fees & Training Materials & Equipment

Name of Company/Service Provider
Amounts Paid
CORE FINANCIAL SYSTEMS LTD
€1,900
CORE INTERNATIONAL LTD.(IRL)
€1,537
CW SYSTEMS INTEGRATION
€2,494
ICS SKILLS TRAINING & CERTIFICATION
€9,765
SURESKILLS
€3,600
TETRA IRELAND COMMUNICATIONS LTD
€3,120
VERSION 1 SOFTWARE
€1,173
AVONDALE MEDIA SERVICES
€1,125
BRIDGE INTERPRETING
€1,610
CENAD
€13,000
EMERGENCY CARE PRODUCTS
€990
HEADSTRONG
€250
HIGH PERFORMANCE
€8,480
INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
€350
KATE KAVANAGH
€2,075
PATRICK SUTTON T/A COMMUNICATE
€14,332
PAULA MEE
€200
PAUL LOFTUS & ASSOCIATES INC
€2,400
PEAK CONNEXXION LTD
€1,600
SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL & AFRICAN STUDIES
€23,968
THE IRISH TIMES
€2,400
TIGER CONSULTING
€27,200
TRISH MURPHY
€200
WRIGHT CONSULTANCY
€20,690

2011/2012

ICT External Services

Name of Company/Service Provider
Amount Paid
B T IRELAND
€771,596
BARTON ENGINEERING AND EXPORT LTD
€5,048
BEARING POINT
€10,220
BLUEWAVE TECHNOLOGY
€4,696
CORE FINANCIAL SYSTEMS LTD
€14,209
FUJITSU IRELAND
€85,994
IAI INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS B.V.
€22,261
INTEGRITY SOLUTIONS LTD
€1,956
ISAS (Formerly trading as RITS)
€369,956
IT ROLLOUT CONSULTANCY
€22,878
JK NETWORK ARCHITECTURE DESIGN LTD
€345,688
TOMORROWS WORLD LTD
€159,888
VERSION 1 SOFTWARE
€5,771
WARD SOLUTIONS
€1,384
ZERO DOWNTIME LTD
€143,887

2011/2012

Support & Maintenance (I.T.)

Name of Company/Service Provider
Amount Paid
1E Ltd
€5,771
AMS LTD
€3,091
BEARING POINT
€2,344,547
BRYAN S RYAN
€2,344
CENTRAL SOLUTIONS LTD
€17,126
CORE FINANCIAL SYSTEMS LTD
€155,427
CORE INTERNATIONAL LTD.(IRL)
€90,243
CW SYSTEMS INTEGRATION
€6,289
DELL COMPUTER
€49,942
Eircom Ltd
€36,951
INTEGRITY SOLUTIONS LTD
€90,984
MAXIMA MANAGED SERVICES IRELAND
€13,788
MICROSOFT
€78,408
ORACLE EMEA LTD
€70,388
QUEST SOFTWARE INTERNATIONAL LTD
€1,324
REPLIWEB INC
€5,972
SAGEM IDENTIFICATION
€401,179
SOFTWORKS COMPUTING Ltd
€47,026
SYSTEM VIDEO
€80,855
VERSION 1 SOFTWARE
€21,953
WARD SOLUTIONS
€13,767
WORLDREACH SOFTWARE CORPORATION
€59,119

2011/2012

HR Consultancy

Name of Company/Service Provider
Amount Paid
Avondale Media
€4,243.50
Dorothy Butler Scally
€4,920.00

2011/2012

Travel Contract Management Fee & Insurance

Name of Company/Service Provider
Fees Paid
Club Travel
€19,723

2011/2012

Legal Expenses (excl. Settlement Costs)

Name of Company/Service Provider
Fees Paid
GWEN MALONE STENOGRAPHY SERVICES
€2,804
STATE CLAIMS AGENCY
€20,181

2011/2012

Public Relations & Advertising (inc. Photos)

Name of Company/Service Provider
Fees Paid
BRINDLEY ADVERTISING
€35,553
IRIS OIFIGIUIL
€946
MAXWELL PHOTOGRAPHY
€310
MONGEY COMMUNICATIONS
€520
NATIONAL LIBRARY
€120
RED DOG
€916
TORANN NA DTONN
€545
TRUVO
€7,079

2011/2012

Translation Services

Name of Company/Service Provider
Fees Paid
CASTLEKNOCK HOTEL & COUNTRY CLUB
€276
DCULS LTD
€666
EUROPUS TEO
€864
EUROTEXT TRANSLATIONS LTD
€400
KL COMMUNICATIONS T
€2,490
LIONBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL
€5,495
MARIE THERESE SAFFRE
€30
SEAN DE FREINE
€2,377
SIOBHAN UI BHRAOIN
€200
WORD PERFECT TRANSLATION SERVICES LTD
€681
THE SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION COMPANY
€3,684
ABRIS TRANSLATIONS
€135

2011/2012

Architect & Engineer Fees

Name of Company/Service Provider
Fees Paid
DELAP & WALLER
€5,614

2011/2012

Premises Professional Fees

Name of Company/Service Provider
Fees Paid
DELAP & WALLER
€5,651
OLIVE SAFETY SERVICES
€4,175

2011/2012

Other Professional Fees

Name of Company/Service Provider
Fees Paid
B CONNECTED LTD
€2,886
ISAS (Formerly T/A RITS)
€4,898
RITS
€15,959
TONY TAAFFE
€3,850
RED DOG
€3,985

Vote 27 International Cooperation (formerly Vote 29 until 2012)

External Professional Services

2011/2012

Professional Service provider

Name of Company/Service Provider
Amounts Paid
ADRIENNE BOYLE
€5,000
MARY BRADY
€24,920
LUIS ENRIQUE BRAN REYES
€4,468
JAMES BURKE
€1,278
CHANNEL RESEARCH
€27,103
MARY CORBETT
€46,785
MELLA CUSACK
€4,121
CATHY DORAN
€8,586
ECONOMIC + SOCIAL RESEARCH INS
€32,676
EVERYWHERE CONSULTANTS
€40,583
MARIE T FANNING
€17,176
DEIRDRE FARRELL
€4,600
KEVIN FARRELL
€15,579
EUNICE FIELDS
€1,500
DR MARGARET FITZGERALD
€5,327
FITZPATRICK ASSOCIATES
€33,002
NICHOLAS FREELAND
€529
CATHY GAYNOR
€11,362
GERAGHTY CONSULTING
€7,568
MARTIN GREENE
€38,695
MARCEL GROGAN
€37,709
HUMANITARIAN POLICY LTD
€33,930
IRISH COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
€222,925
PAUL ISENMAN
€5,294
ITAD LTD
€89,733
MARK JEROME
€8,750
RACHEL KAVANAGH
€2,800
GRACE KELLY HARTNETT
€16,710
JIM KINSELLA
€3,456
PETER MCEVOY
€12,483
HUNTER MCGILL
€6,730
MOKORO LTD
€135,634
NUIMAYNOOTH
€55,648
RUTH O' DOHERTY
€4,590
PROF HELEN O'NEILL
€4,668
JOHN O'REGAN
€9,587
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION DEVELOPMENT
- IOD PARC
€199,872
PAT MCMULLIN
€15,382
REAL EVENT MANAGEMENT
€195,378
PHILIP REGAN
€3,093
CATHY ROCHE
€6,300
RODNEY RICE
€7,385
JAMES SAUNDERSON
€2,400
TIMOTHY SHINE
€1,825
MARIE SMITH
€5,940
SUAS EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
€47,131
AISLING SWAINE CONSULTANCY LTD
€8,702
TONY TAAFFE
€10,400
RONAN TIERNEY
€5,396
FRED TOTTENHAM
€5,556
VALID INTERNATIONAL LTD.
€52,260
EMMA WARWICK
€6,907
MIKE WILLIAMS
€39,378
80:20 EDUCATION
€9,869
AODH O CONNOR
€3,796
MARY MCKEOWN
€2,500
LAUREN BARI
€4,299
GERALD CAWLEY
€4,014
GROUPE URD
€50,000
CATHERINE SARAH JONES
€29,819
CHARLES LATHROP
€9,628
BERNARD MCLOUGHLIN
€9,786
PATRICK D MURPHY
€9,064
EILIS MURRAY
€6,068
NUI GALWAY
€16,105
MORINA O NEILL
€1,720
PIETERNELLA PIETERSE
€3,050

2011/2012

Travel Contract Management

Name of Company/Service Provider
Amount Paid
CLUB TRAVEL
€21,711
CARLSON WAGONLIT TRAVEL
€494

2011/2012

Trainer Fees

Name of Company/Service Provider
Amount Paid
D TALK (KIMMAGE MANOR)
€1,500
SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL & AFRICAN STUDIES
€35,061
INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
€7,403

2011/2012

Translation Services

Name of Company/Service Provider
Amount Paid
ANA BEAL
€676
PAULA NI SHLATARRA
€665
SDL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS
€148

2011/2012

Support and Maintenance

Name of Company/Service Provider
Fees Paid
CORE FINANCIAL SYSTEMS
€167,320
EQUINITI ICS LTD
€36,252
ISIA INFORMATION SECURITY
€2,490

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