Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 17 Nov 1993

Vol. 435 No. 10

Written Answers. - Commissioning of Reports-Inquiries.

Peter Barry

Question:

108 Mr. Barry asked the Minister for Finance if his Department has been responsible for commissioning reports and/or inquiries over the past five years; if so, the nature and number of these; their cost; the number published or awaiting publication.

Minister for Finance (Mr. B. Ahern)

In so far as the Offices, (with the exception of the Office of Public Works), which operate under the aegis of my Department are concerned no reports other than those concerned with internal organisation and internal audit reports have been commissioned in the last five years.

I have set out on the attached table the reports which have been commissioned by my Department and by the Office of Public Works.

Details of research projects commissioned by the Committee for Administrative Research for my Department are listed separately. Unfortunately, details of the individual costs of each of these reports are not readily available but I have indicated the overall expenditure for each of the years in question.

Following is the table:

Department of Finance.

Description	Cost	Published
Remuneration of Hospital Consultants	£44,000	Yes
Remuneration of Presidents of St. Patrick's College Drumcondra and Mary Immaculate College, Limerick and Principal, Church of Ireland College of Education	£3,000	No
Remuneration of Chief Executive of the Legal Aid Board	£3,000	No
Fourth General Review of Remuneration in the higher public sector	£280,000	yes
Report on the future of ICC	£55,104	**
Feasibility Study on the Measurement of the Performance of the NTMA	$ 50,000	**
Report on the Organisation and Management of the Office of Public Works	£94,188	**
The Community Support Framework: Evaluation and Recommendations	£130,000	Yes†
Study on EC Commission Paper “One Market, One Money”	£4,000	No
Reports on the remuneration of Senior Executives in the NTMA	£22,000	**

** Because of the confidential nature of these reports it is not proposed to publish them.

†Summary published.

Office of Public Works

Description	Cost	Published
	£
National Canals and Waterways Strategy Report	80,000	Yes

Reports by the Committee on Administrative Research

Description	Published
1988 (£80,000)
The Changing Role of Government Departments in Relation to State-sponsored Bodies	**
Making Change Work	Yes
1989 (£40,000)
Decentralisation: The Civil Service Experience	Yes
Managing Public Sector Performance	Yes
1990 (£40,000)
Making the most of Management Information	Yes
1991 (£40,000)
Managing Devolved Budgets — The Civil Service Experience	Yes
Identification of the Training and Development needs of Executive and Administrative Staff	**
1992 (£40,000)
Achieving the benefits of Information Technology in the Irish Civil Service	Yes
Administrative Budgets in the Irish Civil Service	Yes
Equality Improvement in the Irish Civil Service	Yes
1993 (£50,000)
Making Evaluation Relevant (to be published)
Control Arrangements for Non-Commercial State-Sponsored Bodies	**

** Because of the confidential nature of these reports it is not proposed to published them.