Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein)
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611. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he could clarify the exact details of what the total payout of €7.6 million by the Government to a company (details supplied) since 2022 has been used for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42496/24]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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Since March 2022, when my Department was faced with the unprecedented crisis of processing and accommodating over 110,000 people fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine arriving into Ireland, my Department utilised the services of Deloitte to support the delivery of its response at pace and scale, particularly in a highly resource-constrained environment.

In the initial phase of the response, Deloitte supported the establishment of a Situation Centre to coordinate my Department’s efforts to find emergency accommodation as a key part of the all of Government response to the war.

Deloitte has assisted with many priority workstreams across the Ukraine Division including but not limited to:

• Improvements to data quality and data governance and robust data monitoring mechanisms to enable data-led decision-making.
• Strategic support to senior management including through data-led assessments of key Divisional challenges.
• Support for process improvements to multiple work processes across the Division, including management of compliance challenges, relocations, payments processes and portfolio consolidation.
• The design and development of a commercial accommodation offers management system.

• Programme management and governance.
• Data management and analytics.
• Operational support.
• IT management and development.