Written answers
Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Departmental Reports
Shane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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573. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of external consultant reports commissioned by her Department in each year from March 2011 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the cost of each report; the company involved; and the title and publication date by report in tabular form. [49903/19]
Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The following table sets out the 97 reports conducted by external consultants from March 2011 to date:
Report | Name of Consultants | Publication Date | Cost € |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | |||
| Social Welfare Appeals Office – Research on Insurability Issues & Access to Legal Resources | Mel Cousins & Associates | 2011 | €7,744 |
| Report on electronic access to GRO Records for genealogy research | John Grenham | Internal Management Report | €3,557 |
| Investigation of odour/smells, Belmullet Local Office | Wright Environmental Services | Internal Management Report | €1,699 |
| Investigation of odour/smells, Cobh Local Office | Employment Health Advisors Ltd | Internal Management Report | €2,023 |
| Development & implementation of the National Employment & Entitlements Service | Accenture | August 2011 | €186,563 |
| Report on Pension Charges in Ireland | PWC | October 2012 | €61,500 |
| Social Inclusion Forum – Conference Report | Aidan Lloyd | August 2012 | €1,500 |
| 2012 | |||
| FÁS IS Applications Systems Review | Accenture | Internal Management Report | €44,772 |
| Analysis & Measurement of Poverty & Deprivation 2012:1. Work & Poverty in Ireland: An Analysis of CSO Survey on Income & Living Conditions 2004-2010 (2012 annual report)2. Technical Paper on Poverty Indicators – [Appendix C of Report of the Review of the National Poverty Target]3. Implications of Income Pooling & Household Decision-Making for Poverty & Deprivation (2012 technical paper) | ESRI | 1. December 2012 2. October 2012 3. October 2013 | €81,230 |
| Review of Irish Pensions Policy | OECD | April 2013 | €130,000 |
| Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund | KPMG | June 2012 | €153,750 |
| Evaluation of JobBridge (National Internship Scheme) | Indecon International Economic Consultants | April 2013 | €59,555 |
| Developing system architecture for the National Employment & Entitlements Service | Compass Point | Internal Management Report | €4,600 |
| Risk assessments regarding reception areas [Arklow, Tallaght, & Kings Inn, Dublin Local Offices] | Nifast | Internal Management Report | €1,845 |
| Air Quality Investigation, Ballymun Local Office | Wright Environmental Services | Internal Management Report | €3,644 |
| Air Quality Investigation, Áras Mhic Dhiarmada | Wright Environmental Services | Internal Management Report | €3,383 |
| Report on Pension Priority Order | Mercer | February 2013 | €18,450 |
| Contracted Employment Service Model | Centre for Economic & Social Inclusion | Internal Management Report | €140,989 |
| 2013 | |||
| Mobile Applications Opportunity Exploration | Accenture | Internal Management Report | €33,388 |
| Social Inclusion Forum – Conference Report | Aidan Lloyd | September 2013 | €1,500 |
| Health & Safety Review of DSP premises, Upper Gardiner St, Dublin 1 | CPL Training Ltd, trading as Nifast Health & Safety Training | Internal Management Report | €1,100 |
| Diet Supplement payment - costings update | Irish Nutrition & Dietetic Institute | September 2013 | €4,000 |
| Analysis & Measurement of Poverty & Social Exclusion (AMPSE) 2013 programme:1. Social Transfers & Poverty in Boom & Recession (for 2013 annual report) 2. Indicators of Economic Strain in the Great Recession (for 2013 technical paper) | ESRI | 1. December 2013 2. April 2014 | €67,979 |
| Auto-Enrolment & Applicability to Ireland (Pensions) | TOR Financial Consulting Ltd. | Internal Management Report | €9,900 |
| A Review of In-work Supports for the Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare | Mel Cousins & Associates | Q4 2014 | €10,000 |
| Delivery of Administrative Profiling Models to Identify those at Risk of Labour Market Disadvantage | ESRI | June 2014 | €33,745 |
| Report on Organisation Development | Axiom Consultants | Internal Management Report | €122,692 |
| Advisory report on implementation of European Youth Guarantee in Irish circumstances | Organisation for Economic co-operation & Development (OECD) | January 2014 | €50,000 |
| Evaluation of the Youth Guarantee Pilot | Franklin Research Ltd. | January 2015 | €20,000 (EU funded Report) |
| Evaluation Research (Back to Education Allowance) | ESRI | October 2015 | €24,809 |
| Survey of Air quality in Nutgrove Local Office | Wright Environmental Services | Internal Management Report | €2,900 |
| Social Welfare Appeals Office – Research into Revising Decisions | Mel Cousins & Associates | Internal Management Report | €2,400 |
| 2014 | |||
| Social Inclusion Forum – Conference Report | Aidan Lloyd | December 2014 | €1,650 |
| Analysis & Measurement of Poverty & Social Exclusion 2014 programme: 1. Transitions into and out of household joblessness using CSO SILC data 2. Measuring Irish joblessness: The SILC and LFS data sources | ESRI | 1. September 20152. May 2015 | €80,000 |
| Security Partner Services - IT Forensics | Deloitte | Internal Management Report | €2,398 |
| Forensic Services | Rits | Internal Management Report | €2,340 |
| Forensic Services | Rits | Internal Management Report | €4,201 |
| Identification & containment of malicious software | Deloitte | Internal Management Report | €15,699 |
| Assessment for Application Lifecycle Management | Microsoft Ireland | Internal Management Report | €22,586 |
| Ex-ante Evaluation to support the preparation of the Operational Programme for the European Fund for the Most Deprived 2014-2020 | Mel Cousins & Associates | Internal report required by EU Regulation No. 223/2014 | €16,000 |
| Microfilm Condition Report | Martin Bradley, Archives and Records Management Consultant | Internal Management Report | €1,691 |
| Report on the effectiveness & efficiency of the guidance model used during Youth Guarantee Pilot | NUI Maynooth | Internal Management Report | €14,145 (EU funded report) |
| Survey of air quality in Waterford Intreo office | Wright Environmental Services | Internal Management Report | €6,863 |
| 2015 | |||
| Review of the EmployAbility (Supported Employment) Service | Indecon International Economic Consultants | August 2016 | €59,280 |
| Policy and practice report: Key lessons learned from the Ballymun Youth Guarantee Project | NUI Maynooth | March 2015 | €11,135 (EU funded Report) |
| Evaluation of the Disability Activation Project | Indecon International Economic Consultants | November 2015 | €29,520 |
| Forensic Services | Rits | Internal Management Report | €11,480 |
| Windows Tablet PC Hardening Review (Limited Scope) | Deloitte | Internal Management Report | €4,151 |
| Social Inclusion Forum – Conference Report | Aidan Lloyd | August 2016 | €1,650 |
| Confidential Information Security Report | Deloitte | Internal Management Report | €7,749 |
| Technical review of rent supplement under the Equal Status Acts. | Mel Cousins & Associates | Internal Management Report | €18,000 |
| Jobseeker Customer Satisfaction Survey | W5 Marketing Intelligence Ltd | Q2 2016 | €72,385 |
| Analysis & Measurement of Poverty & Social Exclusion 2015 Programme:1. Changes in social risks by life-cycle group2. Developing a multi-dimensional quality of life indicator | ESRI | November 2016 July 2016 | €80,000 |
| Evaluation of the Suitability, Effectiveness and Relevance of the JobBridge Activation Programme | Indecon International Economic Consultants | October 2016 | €134,895 |
| Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Activation Reforms | ESRI | May 2019 | €118,315 |
| External quality assessment of DSP Internal Audit | EisnerAmper Ireland | Internal Management Report | €5,535 |
| Information Security Reports | Grant Thornton | Internal Management Report | €10,332 |
| 2016 | |||
| Review of the Local Employment Services and JobClub services | Indecon International Economic Consultants | To be determined following completion of the review. | €87,232 |
| Review of the Predictive Analytic Modelling Solutions for the Department of Social Protection. | The Analytics Store Ltd. | Internal Management Report | €9,471 |
| Back to Education Allowance Qualitative Study | BMG Research | Q2 2017 | €50,670 |
| Jobseeker Customer Satisfaction Survey 2016 (Next annual round of Customer Satisfaction Survey originally commissioned in Aug 2015) | W5 Marketing Intelligence Ltd | Q4 2016 &Q2 2017 | €124,550 |
| Social Inclusion Forum 2016 – Conference Report | Aidan Lloyd | Q2 2017 | €1,650 |
| Measurement and Analysis of Household Income & Living Conditions 2017 Programme:1. Technical paper: examine the feasibility of conducting dynamic analysis to explore poverty and deprivation transitions over time and between different social risk groups2. Research report: examine the poverty and deprivation experience of the different risk groups, both dynamically and across a set of selected EU-countries | ESRI | Q3 2017 Q4 2017 | €94,070 |
| Joint Research Programme on Retirement | ESRI | Q3 2019 | €29,500 |
| Research into development of Pensions, Longer Working Hours and Retirement Policy | ESRI | October 2017 | €32,000 |
| 2017 | |||
| Jobseeker Customer Satisfaction Survey 2017 (Next annual round of Customer Satisfaction Survey originally commissioned in Aug 2015) | W5 Marketing Intelligence Ltd | Q4 2017Q2 2018 | €167,674 |
| Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund as at 31 December 2015 | KPMG | Q3 2017 | €281,670 |
| Compliance of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection with the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 | Mazars | Internal Management Report | €301,350 |
| Independent Review of the amendments to the One-Parent Family payment since Jan 2012 | Indecon | October 2017 | €104,944 |
| Strategic Review of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection’s website | Clickworks and iReach | Internal Management Report | €59,100 |
| Survey of Employers (including JobPlus employers) | W5 Marketing Intelligence Ltd. | May 2018 | €30,750 |
| Social Inclusion Forum 2017 – Conference Report | Lisa Costello | Q2 2018 | €1,750 |
| Study to Explore the drivers of negative employment outcomes on participants of the Back to Education Scheme | BMG Research | Q2 2017 | €41,228 |
| 2018 | |||
| Economic Analysis of Auto-Enrolment Options | ESRI | Publication to be determined in line with any future Government decisions on Automatic- Enrolment | €25,000 |
| Jobseeker Customer Satisfaction Survey 2018 | W5 Marketing Intelligence Ltd. | 2018 | €121,228 |
| Joint Research Programme on Gender and Pensions | ESRI | Q4 2018 | €80,000 |
| Pension Accounting Advice on Post-Employment Benefits | Mazars | Internal Management Report | €4,428 |
| Social Inclusion Forum 2018 – Conference Report | Peigín Doyle | Q2 2019 | €1,443 |
| Health and Safety Audit of the Department’s Print and Stationery Stores | Quadra Consulting | Internal Management Report | €1,722 |
| 2019 | |||
| An Initial Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Intreo Activation Reforms | ESRI | Q1 2019 | €82,820 |
| Measurement and Analysis of Household Income & Living Conditions 2017 Programme1. Technical Paper on Social Inclusion and Access to Care Services in Ireland 2. Research Paper: Access to Childcare and Home Care Services across Europe | ESRI | February 2019 September 2019 | €50,953 €15,678 |
| Research on Costs of Disability in Ireland | Indecon | Q1 2020 (expected) | €192,987 |
| Review of National Action Plan for Social Inclusion | Indecon | Yet to be published | €60,549 |
| Static Electricity Survey of Kennedy House, Navan | Chris Mc Gee Group | Internal Management Report | €2,460 |
| Social Inclusion Forum 2019 – Conference Report | Elizabeth Costello | Q2 2020 (expected) | €2,600 |
| Review of Information Systems Division (ISD) Computer Operations | Philip O’Reilly | Internal Management Report | €24,600 |
| Shift Roster Design Options (for Information Services Division Computer Operations) | Working Time Solutions | Internal Management Report | €23,124 |
| Provision of expertconsultancy support to the Department on the deployment of online services andthe development of a strategic implementation plan for the implementation ofDigital Transformation and the Front Office/Back Office (FO/BO) service model. | Deloitte | Three Internal Management Reports | €288,496.50 |
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