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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 5 Mar 1991

Vol. 405 No. 9

Written Answers. - Departmental Expenditure.

Pat Rabbitte

Question:

119 Mr. Rabbitte asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce if he will disaggregate the consultancy payments of his Department for 1990 and 1991 and outline to whom each was made and the purpose involved.

The details requested in respect of payments made in 1990 and 1991 (to date) from my Department's consultancy allocation are set out in the following tables:

1990

Consultants

Amount

£

Actuarial Advice

Jimmy Joyce

1,360

R. Watson and Sons

2,000

Wim. M. Mercer Fraser

44,521

Sub-total

47,881

Computerisation

Baltimore Technologies Ltd

8,610

Cara Data Processing Ltd

185

Clear Computer Concepts

18,051

Fintra Associates

24,817

Minitech Ltd

1,778

Prose

13,700

The Software Vineyard Ltd

4,920

Wang Ireland Ltd

9,225

Sub-total

81,286

Economic/Industrial

Córas Tráchtála*

3,000

Craig Gardner & Co

15,663

ESRI

925

Gray Murray & Associates

19,434

Oil Price Assessments Ltd (Opal)

808

Touche Ross

13,376

Sub-total

53,206

Legal

Arthur Cox & Co

7,154

Austin V. Maher

300

Barry St. J. Galvin

129

Bridget M. Barry

105

Charles M. Barry and Son

115

Ciaran Feighery

76

Coughlan and Company

441

Elizabeth Dunne

2,203

Frank Clarke

2,005

Gerard Daly & Co.

545

Henry P.F. Donegan and Son

372

Liam Lysaght & Co

11,936

Martin Giblin

480

Mary Finlay

77

Michael Collins

4,146

Michael Cush

63

Michael McDowell

1,736

Murray Sweeney

338

O'Mara and Company

16,783

Patrick F. Tracey

444

Patrick Hunt

1,829

Peter D. Jones

148

Thomas E. Tighe

182

William J. Kennedy

67

Sub-total

51,674

Miscellaneous, including technical

Carr Communications Ltd

1,859

Eolas

2,819

Joseph Chadwick

1,532

University of Dublin

6,400

University College, Cork

3,000

Sub-total

15,610

Total Consultancy 1990

249,657

*This consultancy was on a shared cost basis: payment to CTT represented departmental element.
1991

Consultants

Amount

9

Cyril O'Neill & Co

316

Patrick Hunt

342

Patrick F. Treacy

481

Sub-total

1,139

Miscellaneous, including technical

Lambeg Industrial Research Association

176

Sub-total

176

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