Written answers
Wednesday, 12 July 2023
Department of Finance
Departmental Expenditure
Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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88. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount paid by his Department in 2022 and to date in 2023 on outside or third-party reports of a technical nature or qualitative and quantitative nature, by payee, in tabular form. [34469/23]
Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Details of outside/third-party report costs incurred by my Department in 2022 and 2023 to date are set out in the table below.
| Year | Reports | Payee | Amount (Ex-VAT)€ |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Help to Buy Review | Mazars | €64,300 |
| 2022 | Research, preparation, production and revision of research paper on outbound income flows related to direct investment | Seamus Coffey | €4,800 |
| 2022 | Joint Research Programme on the Macroeconomy, Taxation and Banking* | ESRI | €235,148 |
| 2022 | SME Credit Demand Survey (October-21 – March-22) ** | Behaviour and Attitudes | €56,000 |
| 2022 | International Comparison of Banking Sectors, Retail Banking Review | Deloitte Ireland | €96,800 |
| 2022 | Switch Your Bank consultancy, part 1** | ESRI | €56,790 |
| 2022 | Banking Review survey | Behaviour and Attitudes | €61,800 |
| 2022 | Report of interdepartmental review group on implementation of restrictive measures | Dr. Conan McKenna | €2,100 |
| 2022 | Project Emerald | KPMG | €80,000 |
| 2022-2023 | Delivery of technical solution for interconnection of registers to EU portal | SIA Partners | €212,312.50 |
| 2023 | HBFI Benchmarking MEOP (Isif Rate) Report | KPMG | €30,000 |
| 2023 | SME Credit Demand Survey (April-22 – Sept-22)** | Behaviour and Attitudes | €56,000 |
*The Joint Research Programme (JRP) is a shared programme between the Department of Finance, the Revenue Commissioners and the ESRI launched in 2015 to focus on a range of macroeconomic and taxation concerns in Ireland, with the programme later expanded in 2017 to include research on banking and financial stability issues in Ireland. In total, four projects were published under the JRP in 2022.
**The SME Credit Demand surveys are recouped from Bank of Ireland and Allied Irish Bank. The Switch Your Bank consultancy is recouped from Allied Irish Bank and Permanent TSB.
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