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Thursday, 14 May 2015

Department of Health

Consultancy Contracts Data

Photo of Joanna TuffyJoanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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154. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount of expenditure on consultancy by his Department; the number of consultants engaged by his Department, in the years 2011 to 2014; 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. [18952/15]

Photo of Leo VaradkarLeo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The Department's total expenditure in the A7 subhead consultancy for the years requested since 2011 is as per the tables below. It is the policy in my Department only to engage the services of external consultants where it is felt to be appropriate and cost-effective, taking account of Government decisions and policy on the matter.

YEAR 2014
Total 1,554,511
A7 Subhead
Expenditure €
Milliman Ltd.
48,612
Ernst & Young
39,545
Ms Adebanke Oluborobe
19,600
Prospectus Strategy Consultants
24,143
PA Consulting
701,764
Dr Mary O'Riordan
62,501
NUIG
23,935
DCU
20,096
UCC
12,422
Ms Marissa O'Grady
6,867
Research Matters Ltd.
91,624
Purchasing Solutions Ltd
4,429
Prof. David Hammond
6,889
Irish Hospice Foundation engaged consultants
40,000
Deloitte & Touche
36,900
Prospectus Strategy Consultants
72,294
Crowe Horwarth
39,177
Prospectus Strategy Consultants
6,209
Dr Barry Gibson
10,005
Trutz Haase
11,563
Mr Paul Batchelor, OCC Ltd
7,996
Target Health Ltd. Dr Anne Hope
12,915
Research Matters Ltd.
30,110
ESRI/SWITCH
212,000
Metis Consulting Ltd.
12,915
YEAR 2013
Total 1,220,826
A7 Subhead
Expenditure €
Milliman Ltd
108,635
Dr Oonagh Walsh
12,000
UCC/TCD
28,407
Mr Finian Matthews
1,800
Deloitte and Touche
36,900
Sinead Hanafin & Associates,

Research Specialists Ltd
6,150
Institute of Project Management
12,500
Ernst & Young
79,212
Peter Smyth Management Consultancy Ltd
2,153
Matheson
135,300
Dr Martin Connor, Value based Health Solutions
98,420
PA Consulting
261,012
Centre for Diagnostic Management
30,760
Lis Nixon Associates
202,167
Michael Collins Associates
6,273
McGee Pharma
566
Prospectus Strategy Consultants
79,089
Ms Adebanke Oloborode
5,000
TCD
12,088
CJP Consultants
31,488
Metis Consulting Ltd
30,750
Ageing Well Network
25,000
Prospectus Strategy Consultants
15,156
YEAR 2012
Total 1,562,622
A7 Subhead
Expenditure €
Dr Hubert Curran

(completed 2011)
4,200
Mr Seamus McGirr

(completed 2011)
3,073
Centre for Diagnostic Management

(completed 2011)
37,856
Milliman Ltd.
179,326
Goodbody
68,745
TCD
30,552
PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC)
18,020
Clondalkin Pharma & Healthcare Ltd
1,950
Prof. Oonagh Walsh
27,500
UCC/TCD
42,863
Carole C. Devaney, Editorial Services
3,060
Lis Nixon Associates
202,726
Mr Gerard Mullally
7,558
Dr Martin Connor, Value-based health solutions
199,925
PA Consulting
244,556
Centre for diagnostic management
246,030
Michael Collins Associates
6,150
Southern Health & Social Care Trust
4,998
Mr Mark Ogden
15,851
PA Consulting
182,980
McGee Pharma
13,078
Matheson Ormsby Prentice
6,150
Mr John Martin & Simon Clear & associates
15,475
YEAR 2011
Total €1,040,286
A7 Subhead
Expenditure €
Milliman
7,2348
Goodbody Stockbrokers
300,080
University College Dublin
139,000
Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
14,000
Dr. Oonagh Walsh
10,000
Create Consultancy Ltd
13,144
Mr. Gerard Mullally
5,227
Dr. Hubert Curran
5,808
Value Based Health Solutions
347,925
Mr. Peter Smyth
2,541
Mr. Dermot Smyth
1,200
Ms. Carole Devaney
1,530
Accenture (Pro Bono)
0
Advertising Standards Authority Ireland
52,265
Peter Cassells Consultants Ltd.
16,698
Mark Morgan
22,688
Irish Heart Foundation
35,832

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