Batt O'Keeffe
Question:43 Mr. B. O'Keeffe asked the Minister for the Marine the total amount of money expended on consultancies in the past two years; the total number of reports from these consultancies; and the cost of such reports. [1497/97]
Written Answers. - Departmental Costs.
The amounts expended on consultancy and certain other professional services in 1995 and 1996 were £1,306,000 and £1,120,00 respectively. This includes certain consultancies the costs of which were met by the Dún Laoghaire Harbour Finance Board.
My Department's wide remit covers fisheries, marine transport, marine pollution and the marine environment, the operation of five fishery harbour centres and Dún Laoghaire harbour. These responsibilities require the engagement of a large number of engineering and other technical consultants. The cost of these consultancies accounts for the bulk of my Department's expenditure in this area.
Reports are prepared in respect of most consultancies undertaken on behalf of my Department, but these would generally be technical or operational in character. The major policy reviews and studies which have been initiated in my Department since 1995 and for which consultants have been engaged are set out in a table which I propose to circulate in the Official Report. This table does not include engineering or other technical consultancies.
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Title of Review/Study |
Undertaken by |
Cost/Estimated Cost |
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£ |
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Review of the Management and Organisational Structures of the Fishery Service |
Price Waterhouse Management Consultants |
91,000 |
|
Report on the Organisation and Management of the Southern Regional Fisheries Board |
Mr. Dermot Rochford, Personnel and Management Consultant |
7,592 |
|
Review of Pilotage in Waterford Estuary |
1. Clyde Consultants Ltd. (Scotland) |
8,250 |
|
2. Captain Denis Gray |
1,637 |
|
|
Review of Irish Seafarers Income Tax and PRSI |
Nautical Enterprise Centre of Cork regional technical college |
5,000 |
|
Study of the strategies and options for renewal and restructuring of the Irish Whitefish Fleet |
KMPG/McIver Management Consultants |
34,787 |
|
Coastal Zone Management Study (Joint study commissioned by Departments of Environment, Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht and the Marine) |
Brady Shipman Martin, Planning Consultants in association with H.R. Wallingford Ltd., Natural Environment Consultants and Dr. Susan Gubbay |
39,064Similar sum being paid by Departments of the Environment and Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht |