Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 25 Mar 1997

Vol. 476 No. 7

Written Answers. - Departmental Staff.

Ivor Callely

Question:

418 Mr. Callely asked the Minister for Defence the persons appointed by him or by the Minister of State at his Department as programme managers, advisers, assistants or back-up staff, either in his Department or in constituency offices; the annual 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 consult- ancies, reviews, examinations, analyses or any public relations service on his behalf or on behalf of the Minister (s) of State at his Department; and the full costs in respect of these to his Department. [8003/97]

Minister for Defence (Mr. Barrett)

The following contract staff are employed by me. The annual salary in each case is shown in brackets.

Mr. Conor Barry, Programme Manager (£50,988)

Ms Angela O'Donnell, Special Adviser (£27,177)

Ms Deirdre McDevitt, Personal Assistant (£17,256)

Mr. Tim Ryan, Personal Secretary (£13,066).

The salary costs are shared equally between the Departments of Defence and Marine reflecting my dual ministerial roles.

There are no contract staff employed by the Minister of State for Defence and no consultancies have been entered into by the Department on his behalf.

The consultants engaged by the Department since I took office and the cost of the services provided are as follows:

Consultants	Cost	Service
Aer Rianta	5,000.00	Monitor building proposals around Casement Aerodrome.
O'Shea Business Consultants Ltd.	89,942.32	Career/Outplacement services in connection with the Voluntary Early Retirement Scheme.
Vision Computing Ltd.	21,640.000(funded jointly with Dept. of the Marine)	Report on resources needed to implement EC Regulations setting out new requirements for fishing vessels operating in Irish Waters.
PARC Aviation	126,310.00	Assist with the selection of Air Corp and Naval Service Cadets.
Price Waterhouse	8,292.13(funding jointly with Dept. of Taoiseach/Finance)	Strategic Management Initiative related services.
HAY-MSL	30,310.50(funded jointly with Dept. of Taoiseach/Finance)	Strategic Management Initiative facilitators for the Defence Forces
Heneghan Public Relation Consultants	3,563.02	Public Relations Services.
Young Communications	546.80	Public Relations Services.
Brindley Advertising Ltd.	6,624.00	PR Services in connection with the Civil Defence “Towards 2000” Programme
VMRA Consulting Engineers	Nil to date	Consulting Engineers.
J.V. Tierney & Co., Consulting Engineers	Nil to date	Consulting Engineers.