Written answers
Thursday, 10 March 2022
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Departmental Consultations
Carol Nolan (Laois-Offaly, Independent)
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316. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of external consultant's reports commissioned by her Department in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022; the cost of same; the company involved; the title and publication date of the report in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13569/22]
Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The following table sets out the 14 reports conducted by external consultancies for the period in question:
| 2019 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Report | Name of Consultants | Publication Date | Cost |
| An Initial Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Intreo Activation Reforms | ESRI | Q1 2019 | €82,820 |
| Measurement and Analysis of Household Income & Living Conditions 2017 Programme: 1. 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 | €78,392 |
| Review of the National Action Plan for Social Inclusion | Indecon | Internal Management Report | €90,824 |
| Static Electricity Survey of Kennedy House, Navan | Chris McGee Group | Internal Management Report | €2,460 |
| Review of Information Systems Division 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 expert consultancy support to the Department on the deployment of online services and the development of a strategic implementation plan for the implementation of Digital Transformation and the Front Office/Back Office (FO/BO) service model. | Deloitte | Three (3) Internal Management Reports | €288,496 |
| Research on Costs of Disability in Ireland | Indecon | December 2021 | €318,660 |
| 2020 | |||
| Social Transfers and Deprivation in Ireland: A study of cash and non-cash payments tied to housing childcare and primary health services | ESRI | November 2020 | €78,391 |
| Social Inclusion Forum 2019 – Conference Report | Elizabeth Costello | August 2020 | €2,600 |
| Public Employment Services Review: Draft Recommendations | Institute for Employment Studies and Social Finance | To be decided | €123,318 |
| 2021 | |||
| Technical paper on the measure of basic deprivation and consistent poverty in Ireland | ESRI | October 2021 | €49,315 |
| Research on recalibrating the PEX statistical profiling model that is currently in use by Intreo offices | ESRI | Expected to be published in Q4 2022 | €60,000 |
| Recommendations for the Department of Social Protection Migration from SAS to Microsoft and the Framework for Statistical Analytics | Project Botticelli | Internal Management Report | €25,830 |
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