Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 19 Dec 1996

Vol. 473 No. 3

Written Answers. - Departmental Staff.

Ivor Callely

Question:

113 Mr. Callely asked the Minister for the Environment the persons appointed by him or by the Minister(s) of State at his Department as programme managers, advisers, assistants or back-up staff either in his Department or in constituency offices; the annualised remuneration paid to these staff; the names of individuals, groups or companies which have undertaken or have been approved to undertake full-time, part-time or casual consultancies, reviews, examinations or analyses or any public relations service on his behalf or on behalf of the Minister(s) of State at his Department; the actual and estimated cost for 1997 in this regard; the persons, companies, consultants or otherwise he or the Minister(s) of State at his Department have appointed to carry out work on behalf of semi-State bodies under the aegis of his Department; the reviews, consultancies or reports which he or the Minister(s) of State at his Department have commissioned or are due to commission; and the full costs in respect of all of these matters to his Department. [25100/96]

Minister for the Environment (Mr. Howlin)

Information on persons appointed to the staff of my Department is in the following Table 1 and information on appointments to semi-State bodies is in Table 2.

No firms have been engaged by my Department for the provision of public relations services since my appointment as Minister. Information on consultancies etc., undertaken on behalf of my Department since my appointment as Minister is set out in Table 3. In addition 14 graphic design consultants were engaged to prepare designs for departmental publications etc. Payments to date in 1996 total £75,500 with overall project costs estimated at about £104,000.

Reviews, consultancies and reports are commissioned on an ongoing basis, as the need arises, where the application of external, specialist expertise is required.

Table 1: Ministerial Appointments

Appointed by	Number	Title or Grade	Annual Salary
			£
Minister	1	Programme Manager	45,074
	1	Special Adviser	45,074
	1	Personal Secretary	23,289
	1	Personal Secretary	18,823
	Number	Title or Grade	Annual Salary
			£
Minister of State McManus	1	Special Adviser	28,576
	1	Personal Assistant	16,234
	2*	Personal Secretaries	10,330
	2	Civilian Drivers	27,168

*Two part-time staff filling one post.

Table 2: Ministerial Appointments to the Semi-State Bodies

Body	Appointee
An Bord Pleanála	Ms Margaret Byrne
	Mr. Lewis Clohessy
	Mr. Michael O'Connell
An Chomhairle Leabharlanna	Mr. Ned Fahy
	Mr. William Simpson
Building Regulations Advisory Body	Mr. Paddy Morrissey
Mr. Michael Collins
	Ms Mirette Corboy
	Mr. Liam Fitzagerald
	Mr. Pat Forkan
	Ms Denise Germaine
	Mr. Brian Hendrick
	Ms Bríd Kelly
	Mr. Robert Lyons
	Ms Jeanne Meldon
	Mr. Derek Maynard
	Mr. John McCarthy
	Mr. Seán McCarthy
	Ms Attracta McCay
	Ms Niamh O'Doherty
	Ms Krystyna Rawicz
	Mr. Denis Wall
	Mr. Michael O'Connell (since retired)
	Mr. Michael McCarthy
Custom House Docks Development Authority	Ms Valerie Mulvin
Ms Gina Quinn
Fire Services Council	Mr. Donal Connolly
	Mr. Karl Cashen
	Ms Betty Bell
	Mr. John Fagan
	Mr. Donal Guerin
	Mr. Martin Lawton
	Ms Siobhán McGloin
	Ms Niamh O'Doherty
	Mr. Seán Purcell
	Dr. Christine Somers
	Ms Anne Reynolds
	Mr. Eamon Woulfe
Housing Finance Agency	Mr. Joe Allen (since resigned)
Mr. Thomas Cullen
	Mr. Thomas Corcoran
Local Government Computer Services Board	Ms Bríd Carter
Mr. Ian Keating
Medical Bureau of Road Safety	Dr. Francis Martin
National Building Agency Ltd.	Mr. Michael Breen
Mr. Michael Dillon
	Ms Aileen Doyle
	Ms Margaret Doyle
	Mr. Dermot Foley
	Mr. Jim Kelly
	Mr. Finian Matthews
	Ms Ann McGuinness
	Ms Joan O'Connor
	Mr. Matt O'Connor
	Mr. Peter Roche
	Ms Maeve Sheehan
	Mr. Vincent Toher
National Safety Council	Ms Riona Ní Fhlanghaile
Rent Tribunal	Ms Moya Quinlan
	Ms Mary Devins
	Mr. Brendan Dillon
	Mr. Joseph Maguire
	Mr. Leo Martin (since deceased)
	Ms Louise Moloney
	Ms Mary Doyle
	Mr. Felix McKenna
	Ms Sheila O'Flynn
	Mr. Bill Stanbridge
	Mr. Val Stone
	Mr. Vincent Toher
Temple Bar Properties Ltd.	Mr. Pat Kenny
Mr. Derek Brady
	Mr. John O'Connor
	Ms Laura Magahy
	Mr. Joseph Moreau
	Ms Patricia Quinn
	Ms Patricia O'Donovan
	Ms Caroline Brady
	Ms Ann Matthews
	Mr. Tony Murray
	Mr. Philip King
	Ms Caroline McCamley
Temple Bar Renewal Ltd.	Lord Mayor Brendan
Lynch
	Alderman Seán D.
	Dublin Bay-Rockall
	Loftus (since resigned)
	Mr. Derek Brady
	Senator Joe Doyle
	Councillor Mary Freehill
	Mr. Dara Gallagher
	Ms Emer Malone
	Mr. Finian Matthews
	Mr. Matt McNulty
	Mr. Phelim O'Reilly
	Ms Emer O'Siochru
	Ms Carmel Sherry
Steering Committee of the Dublin Transportation Office (DTO)	Mr. John Mahony
Mr. David Byrne (since retired)
	Dr. Ray Byrne
	Mr. John Fitzgerald
	Mr. Jimmy Farrelly
	Mr. John Henry
	Mr. Tom King
	Mr. Donal Mangan
	Mr. Pat Mangan
	Mr. Kevin O'Sullivan
	Mr. Pat O'Toole (since resigned)
	Professor S. H. Perry
	Ms Therese Ridge
	Mr. Willie Soffe
	Mr. Blaise Treacy
	Mr. Frank Kavanagh (wef 2-1-1997)

Table 3

Name (individual, group or company)	Project Title	Full project cost	Total (projected) expenditure to end 1996	Anticipated expenditure in 1997
		£	£	£
Agniconsult (UK)	Assessment of methods for stopping spread of fires.	1,000	Nil	1,000
Alan Moore	Electronic retrieval system for motor tax legislation	4,458	1,210	3,248
Arks Advertising	Cork Coal Ban Campaign (Stage 1)	49,838	49,838	Nil
Arks Advertising	Cork Coal Ban Campaign (Stage 2)	20,007	20,007	Nil
Baltimore Technologies	Evaluation of Wide Area Network procurement — NVDF project	8,712	8,712	Nil
Blackrock Education Centre	Anti-Litter Educational Material for Schools	34,444	34,444	Nil
Brady Shipman Martin (Lead Consultants)	Coastal Zone Management Study	39,064(1)	35,922(1)	3,142(1)
Brindley Advertising Ltd.	Christmas Recycling Promotion (1995)	29,722	29,722	Nil
Brindley Advertising Ltd.	Christmas Recycling Promotion (1996)	15,836	15,836	Nil
Building Research Establishment (UK)	Construction Industry — Fire Aspects of Eurocode 1	5,500	5,500	Nil
CARA	Training for Department staff	400	400	Nil
Cavalier Ireland	Advice on systems/programme testing process — NVDF project	13,000	9,142	3,800
Cyril Fagan	Conversion of vehicle files — NVDF project	4,700	4,700	Nil
DKM	Construction Industry Review and Outlook	44,770	29,645	15,125
DKM	External Evaluator for the Operational Programme for Transport 1994-1999(2)	471,567(3)	147,807	323,760
Dr. Gerard Kidney	Occupational Health System in the Fire Service	3,249	3,249	Nil
Drury Communications Ltd.	Training for Department staff	23,000	23,000	Nil
EMA — Environmental Management and Auditing Services Ltd.	Preparation of consultation paper — National Sustainable Development Strategy	6,002	6,002	Nil
Environmental Resources Management and Fitzpatrick Associates	Mid-term evaluation of Environmental Services Operational Programme 1994-1999	53,089(4)	11,012	42,077
ESRI	Sample Survey of Residential Repair and Maintenance Expenditure	13,500(5)	Nil	13,500
Forbairt	Construction Industry — Eurocodes 6, Phases 2 and 3	3,630	3,630	Nil
Gamma Ltd.	Spatial Planning	3,993	3,993	Nil
Generale des Eaux and MC O'Sullivan	Greater Dublin Water Supply Strategy Study	513,721	513,721	Nil
HRA Management Training Consultants	Training for Department staff	8,445	8,445	Nil
IBM	National Vehicle File data conversion — NVDF project	5,400	768	4,632
ICL	Operational support for system testing — NVDF project	4,848	4,848	Nil
Institute of Public Administration	Training for Department staff	15,568(6)	15,568	Nil
Kavanagh Associates	Training for Department staff	160	160	Nil
Kevin Leonard	Training for Department staff	550	550	Nil
KPMG Management Consulting in association with Murray O'Laoire, Architects and Urban Designers and the Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre	Study on Urban Renewal Schemes	113,740	113,740	Nil
KPMG Management Consulting	Professional Study on Local Government Funding	92,402	92,402	Nil
Marine Institute	Preparatory work for Quality Status Report for the Celtic Seas	7,500(7)	7,500(7)	Nil
Marine Institute (Q.S.R. Office)	Quality Status Report for the Celtic Seas	150,000(7)	50,000(7)	87,000(7)
McHugh O'Cofaigh Architects	Review of Building Regulations Technical Guidance Documents	20,692	20,692	Nil
MC O'Sullivan	Geographic Information System	142,600	Nil	100,000
MC O'Sullivan	Litter Survey	29,766	29,766	Nil
National Roads Authority and the Garda Síochana	Survey on Motor Tax and Insurance Evasion	5,000	5,000	Nil
Northern Ireland Housing Executive	Preparation of First Report of Housing Management Group	6,426	6,426	Nil
Ove Arup and Partners (Ireland)	Non-National Roads Pavement Condition Study	167,681	134,144	33,537
Peritas	NVDF project — training for computer systems administration	20,995	8,000	12,995
Price Waterhouse	Evaluation of computer hardware procurement — NVDF projec	8,712	8,712	Nil
Price Waterhouse	Study of Organisational Arrangements — Office of Director of Traffic for Dublin	61,935	61,935	Nil
Public Art Development Trust	Public Art Research Project	13,561(8)	13,561	Nil
Saatchi and Saatchi Advertising Ltd.	Anti-Litter Public Awareness Campaign	88,845	88,845	Not yet determined
Saatchi and Saatchi Advertising Ltd.	Register of Electors Advertisement Campaign (1995)	59,015	59,015	Nil
Saatchi and Saatchi Advertising Ltd.	Register of Electors Advertisement Campaign (1996)	53,601	53,601	Nil
University College Dublin	Analysis of radon survey results	500	500	Nil

(1)Cost to DOE; jointly funded by DOE, Marine and Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht.

(2)Engaged by DOE, as lead Department for the Programme, on behalf of the Operational Programme Monitoring Committee.

(3)Anticipated cost to this Department to end 1997. Final apportionment between Departments has yet to be determined.

(4)Engaged by DOE, as lead Department for the Programme, on behalf of the Operational Programme Monitoring Committee.

(5)Annual cost.

(6)Additional expenditure of £4,375 was recouped from the Department of Finance.

(7)Cost to DOE; jointly funded by DOE and the Department of the Marine.

(8)Full project cost to DOE — jointly funded by DOE, Department of Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, Office of Public Works and the Arts Council.