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Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 5 Aug 1971

Vol. 255 No. 19

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Reports and Surveys.

15.

asked the Minister for Finance what reports and surveys, if any, have been commissioned by his Department in each of the past ten years; the amount of money spent on each such report or survey; by whom they were conducted; and how many, if any, reports or surveys are outstanding.

The information sought by the Deputy is set out in a statement which, with your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, I propose to circulate with the Official Report.

Following is the statement:

Year

Report/Survey

Conducted by

Cost

Is Report/Survey outstanding?

1962

Report on proposed introduction of Incentive Bonus on Arterial Drainage

Associated Industrial Consultants

£40,000

No

1963

Report on proposed new Stationery Office warehouse lay-out and procedures

Production Engineering Ltd. (now PE Consulting Group Ltd.)

£2,000

No

1964

Report of Committee on Post Retirement Adjustments in Public Service Pensions

Committee on Post Retirement Adjustments in Public Service Pensions

£135 viz. cost of printing report

No

1966

Report on operation of New Works Architectural Division in the Office of Public Works

Polycon Group

£2,730

No

1966

Report of the Public Services Organisation Review Group

Public Services Organisation Review Group. The Group engaged a firm of consultants (Booz, Allen and Hamilton International) to assist it in its work

£124,000 (£93,640 of which was paid to the consultants)

No

1967-68

The following research projects were commissioned by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) in consultation with the Department of Finance:

Relationship between investment and growth in output and, if possible, in capacity, by sector and subsector

M. O'Donoghue (T.C.D.)

£230

No

Analysis of behaviour of profits of public companies in manufacturing industry in Ireland over the last 10-15 years, and of any changes which occurred in the proportions of profits distributed and ploughed back

M. MacCormac (U.C.D.)Prof. J. Bates (Q.U.B.)

Cost borne by ESRI

No

Projections to 1970-75 of probable changes in input/output co-efficients in selected industries or industry groups

J. McGilvray (T.C.D.)

£350

No

Relationship (including lags) between wages and prices. Subsequently published by the ESRI under the title “Costs and prices in transportable goods industries”

W. Black and J. Simpson (Q.U.B.)

Cost borne by ESRI

No

Analysis of general economic relationships between public and private sectors: multiplier effects of changes in government expenditure within framework of balanced budget

W.K. O'Riordan (U.C.D.)

£1,000

No

Factors taken into account in investment decisions in Irish industry

P. Lynch, J. Doolan (U.C.D.) P. Lyons (T.C.D.)

£750

No

The economic consequences of the introduction of a system of added-value tax on the EEC model, covering industrial production, agricultural production and services

A.A. Tait (T.C.D.)

Cost borne by ESRI

No

Examination of the levels and trends of public expenditure on certain social services in a number of smaller European countries

Prof. P.R. Kaim-Caudle (Durham University)

Cost borne by ESRI

No

1967

Motivational research study on the greater use of the Irish language

Institute for Motivational Research, New York

£7,242

No

1967

Assistance in the initial CR projects undertaken by the newlyformed OR Unit in the Department of Finance

University of Lancaster

£3,948

No

1968

Report on research into civil service work at certain higher levels with a view to advising on training needs

Institute of Public Administration

£18,200

Final report from IPA still awaited

1968

Review of the development of ADP and computers in the Civil Service (part of a larger undertaking carried out on behalf of the Economic and Social Research Institute)

Professor F.G. Foster, Department of Statistics, T.C.D.

Cost borne by ESRI

No

1969

Survey on clerical work measurement in the Office of the Revenue Commissioners

W.D. Scott & Co. Ltd., Management Consultants, London

£9,534

No

1969

(a) Technical change in Irish industry. (b) Foreign investment and its influence on technological transfer in Irish Economic Development

Department of Economics, University College, Dublin

(a) and (b) £170

1969

Survey of Provincial Museums, Great Houses and Gardens

An Taisce

£5,221

No

1969

Amenity study of Kilkenny city in context of National Park Planning

Students of College of Technology, Bolton Street

£350 (estimated)

No

1969

Report on research in attitudes towards the Administrative Officer grade in the Civil Service

Institute of Public Administration

£1,450

No

1970

Report of the Commission on the Status of Women

Commission on the Status of Women. The Commission have engaged the consultancy services of the Economic and Social Research Institute to assist it in its work

£9,500 (approx.) to date

The Commission have not yet published any report. They have given priority to the question of equal pay and they are at present engaged on the preparation of an interim report on this subject.

1970

Survey of civil service typing services

Economic and Social Research Institute

£500

Final report still awaited.

1970

Assessment of the environment for research and development in Ireland

Science Policy Research Centre, University College, Dublin

£4,000

Final report ill awaited.

1970

Sectoral review for Science Policy purposes

Professor C.T.G. Dillion, University College, Cork

£1,500

Final report still outstanding.

1971

Report on research on current attitudes towards the Irish language and on the extent to which the public would support policy developments which seemed to offer a greater chance of achieving the aim of restoring Irish as a general means of communication in a significant range of language functions

Dr. L.A. Brudner, Pittsburg University

£500 to date

Final report still outstanding.

1971

Survey of Scientific and Technical Information

Institute for Industrial Research and Standards (IIRS), in collaboration with the National Science Council (NSC)

Nil

Survey findings still awaited

1971

Survey of communications pattern among scientists

An Foras Talúntais in collaboration with the NSC

£1,250

Survey findings still awaited.

1971

Survey of Marine activity and Marine resources

IIRS in collaboration with NSC

Nil

Survey findings still awaited.

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