Written answers
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Departmental Contracts
Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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1113. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount spent on consultancy services by his Department in 2021; the reason for each consultancy; and the name of the consultancy in tabular form. [1712/22]
Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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My department has identified the following consultancy contracts with spend during 2021 in the table below.
| Name | Reason |
|---|---|
| Insights Health and Social Research | A report into the findings of a consultation with children and young people on their experience of interventions under the Child Care Act 1991; and, a summary desk review of the evaluation of Tusla’s Children’s Participation Work Package under Prevention, Partnership and Family Support Programme. |
| Frontier Economics | Provision of research support and advice to the expert group convened by the Minister to develop a New Funding Model for Early Learning |
| Paul Boland Consultancy / Invision Software | Lotus Notes administration and migration services |
| BID t/a BID Services and Public Procurement Services | Procurement tendering and general procurement advice |
| ACE Communication Ltd | Provision of review, analysis, summary and reporting on the written submissions made as part of the public consultation on Ireland’s First Report under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) |
| ACE Communications | Review, analysis, summary and reporting on the written submissions made as part of the public consultation on Ireland’s First Report under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities |
| Satya Brink | Provision of expert advice for phase 2 of Growing Up in Ireland - the National Longitudinal Study of Children |
| Ann Sanson | Provision of expert advice for phase 2 of Growing Up in Ireland - the National Longitudinal Study of Children |
| Angela Palmer | Research and information specialist services in the areas of child protection and welfare and children in care |
| Dolores Sullivan | Expertise in Legal Researcher specifically in the context of an investigation under the Commission of Investigations Act 2004 |
| Centre for Effective Services (CES) | Provision of specialist expertise for the co-ordination and management of the Quality and Capacity Building Initiative |
| University of Derby | An End of Year Three Evaluation of the Access and Inclusion Model (AIM) |
| Mazars | A scoping review to help develop a proposed new birth cohort for the Growing Up in Ireland study |
| Castlebridge | Expert advice in relation to GDPR, in particular, but not limited to SARs, on receipt of database and records from the Mother & Baby Home Commission of Inquiry |
| Mindshare | (Lot 2) Republic of Ireland Media Strategy, Planning & Buying (Implementation) Services |
| ESRI | Phase 2 of 'Growing Up in Ireland', the National Longitudinal Study of Children |
| ESRI | Membership to SWITCH Steering Group |
| Datatrails | Data Protection Expertise |
| WhiteLight Consulting Ltd. | Online consultation session on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child |
| Baker Tilly | Review of capacity at Senior Management Team level with a specific focus on 2021 strategic priorities |
The total spend in 2021 for the above mentioned consultancy was €5,389,730.52.
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