Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 19 Oct 1995

Vol. 457 No. 3

Written Answers. - Ministerial Costs.

Noel Dempsey

Question:

88 Mr. Dempsey asked the Minister for the Environment the number and cost of staff in his general and private ministerial offices and the general and private ministerial offices of the Minister (s) of State at his Department; the number and cost of contract and part-time staff employed in such offices; the cost of all travel undertaken by him or the Minister (s) of State at his Department since appointment to office outlining the destinations visited, the duration, date and purpose of the trips; the total expenses incurred by him or the Minister (s) of State at his Department and the cost and names of consultancy services to his Department and each State body under the aegis of his Department to date in 1995. [15302/95]

Minister for the Environment (Mr. Howlin)

The number and annual salary of the staff, including contract and part-time staff, employed in my private and constituency offices and in those of the Minister of State at my Department are set out in the following Table 1.

I assume that the travel cost information requested relates to foreign travel; this information was given in the reply to Question No. 89 on 18 October 1995.

The information requested on consultancy services and the cost of these to date in 1995 is set out in Table 2. In addition nine graphic design companies were engaged to prepare designs for a total of 36 departmental publications etc., totalling £53,372 to date in 1995.

As the question of consultancy services to State bodies under the aegis of my Department is a matter for the bodies themselves, the information requested is not available in my Department.

Table 1

	Numbers Employed	Annual Salary Costs
		£000
Minister's Office:
Contract/Part-time staff	4	127
Non-contract staff	12	168
Minister of State Deputy McManus's Office:
Contract/Part-time staff	*6	78
Non-contract staff	7	104
Minister of State Deputy Allen's Office:
Contract/Part-time staff	—	—
Non-contract staff	3	53

* Includes two part-time staff filling one post.

Table 2

Consultants	Nature of Work	Payments To Date in 1995
		£
Arks Advertising	Cork Coal Ban Campaign (Stage 1)	49,838
Arks Advertising	Cork Coal Ban Campaign (Stage 2)	Nil
Baker Consultants	Communications Study	Nil
Brady Shipman Martin	*Coastal Zone Management	Nil
DBI Associates	National Vehicle Driver File	28,896
DKM	External evaluator to the Operational Programme for Transport	54,455
DKM	Construction Industry — Review and Outlook	14,520
ESRI Atkins International	Road Signs Manual	20,570
ESRI	Environment Policy Research Studies	48,799
ESRI	Work on Supplementary Welfare Allowance Scheme	Nil
Forbairt	Construction Industry — Eurocodes (6) Phase 2 and 3	Nil
Forbairt	Genetically Modified Organisms	2,000
Gamma Ltd.	Spatial Planning	3,993
Generale des Eaux and M. C. O'Sullivan	Dublin Region Water Supply — Strategic Study	125,000
Irish Marketing Surveys	Survey of Residential Repair and Maintenance	4,437
Kavanagh, Mansfield & Partners	Construction Industry — Eurocodes (1)	5,000
Dr. Gerard F. Kidney	Occupational Health and Safety in the Fire Service	Nil
KPMG	Professional Study on Local Government Financing	15,275
Local Government Computer Ser-	Development Plan for Water Services
vices Board		Nil
Local Government Computer Ser- vices Board	Election Count Computerisation	Nil
McHugh O'Cofaigh Architects	Redrawing of diagrams in Building Regulations Technical Guidance Documents	Nil
M.J. Carew & Associates	Construction Industry — Eurocodes (3)	Nil
Price Waterhouse	National Vehicle Driver File	204,580
Public Art Research Development Trust	Public Art Research Project	6,275
Saatchi & Saatchi	Register of Electors Advertisement Campaign	16,486
Teagasc	Newsprint Studies	Nil
TMS Consultancy	Accident Black Spot Manual	30,250
Weston FTA Ltd.	Economic Evaluation of Cohesion Fund Environmental Protects	45,000

*Jointly funded by the Departments of the Environment, Marine and Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht.