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133 Mr. Callely asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the amount paid to consultants by his Department for each year from 1995 to date; the estimated cost for 1999; the names of the consultants; the areas of work concerned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24197/98]
The information requested is shown in the following schedules:
*1995/96 Costs in these cases are met out of the Evaluation and Technical Assistance element of the Operational Programme for Agriculture, Rural Development and Forestry.
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Consultant |
Nature of Work |
Payment in 1995 |
Payment in 1996 |
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Brendan Kearney & Associates |
Evaluation of the Compensatory Allowances Scheme in Ireland |
*£22,143 |
|
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Colin McIver & Associates |
Analysis of Actual Preparation Hours involved in Teagasc's Adult Training Programme |
*£11,827 |
|
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Fitzpatrick Associates |
Mid-Term Review of the Operational Pro-gramme for Agriculture, Rural Develop-ment and Forestry, 1994-1999 |
*£40,914 |
|
|
Research and Evaluation Services |
Surveys of participants in the Schemes of Installation Aid for Young Farmers and in the Horticulture, Potato and Organic Farming Schemes under the Operational Programme for Agriculture, Rural Development and Forestry |
*£22,546 |
|
|
Price Waterhouse |
Professional Services for the Department's reorganisation exercise |
£4,840 |
£35,977 of which £20,408 refunded by the Department of the Taoiseach |
|
Justin Keogan |
Feasibility Study on setting up of Food Database |
£2,000 |
|
|
Price Waterhouse |
Facilitation of Strategic Management Initiative (SMI) |
£38,511 of which £19,253 refunded by Department of the Taoiseach |
|
|
Fergal O'Brien |
Updating of Compendium of Irish Economic and Agricultural Statistics |
£1,092 |
|
|
Brendan Kearney and Alan Matthews |
Future Options for CAP - Joint Study with ACC and Farmers Journal |
£5,000 (Department's Contribution) |
|
|
KPMG |
Training Needs analysis for Senior Manage-ment Staff |
£33,400 |
|
|
Drury Communications |
Public Relations |
£1,513 |
|
|
Bill O'Herlihy Communications Group |
Public Relations |
£1,550 |
|
|
McMahon Sheedy Communications Group |
Public Relations |
£30,161 |
£31,455 |
|
Arthur Anderson |
Certification of FEOGA Guarantee Annual Account for 1996 as required by Council Regulation (EC) No. 1287/95 |
£32,670 |
|
|
Coopers & Lybrand Ltd. |
Plan for the Movement Permit and Plan for Headage project |
£24,371 |
|
|
Coopers & Lybrand Ltd. |
Assessment of existing computerised accounting |
£86,746 |
|
|
H. Griffith, Quirke & Son Ltd./ Casebourne Southern Ltd./ KPO Mahony and Co. Ltd. |
Advice on approval of livestock vessels |
£2,706 |
£9,614 |
|
Ernst & Young |
Study into Meat Inspection Service |
£39,000 |
£36,000 |
|
Ernst & Young |
Study on the future organisation of cattle breeding in Ireland |
£112,206 |
|
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Ernst & Young |
£28,738 |
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S.G.S. (UK) Ltd. |
Independent Deboning Yield exercise |
£26,366 |
|
|
S.G.S. (UK) Ltd. |
Independent Survey of Intervention Beef at Cold Store |
£1,392 |
|
|
Colin McIvor Associates |
Evaluation of Leader II Business Plans |
£22,022 |
|
|
Brendan Kearney & Associates |
On-going evaluation and mid-term review of the Leader II Programme |
£114,439 |
|
|
Sale of the assets of the former Dublin and Cork District Milk Boards and winding up of the Boards affairs |
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O'Hare & Associates |
Accountancy and General Aspects |
£92,489 |
£16,940 |
|
Eugene F. Collins |
Legal Aspects |
£30,669 |
£6,397 |
|
Goddard Smith & McCabe |
Valuation Aspects |
£6,050 |
|
|
Ernst & Young |
Audit Fees - Cork District Milk Board |
£4,229 |
|
|
Deloitte & Touche |
Audit Fees - Dublin District Milk Board |
£4,132 |
|
|
McCabe, Crisp & Partners |
Sale of Cork Premises |
£1,815 |
|
|
Deloitte & Touche/Jaakko Poyry |
Development of Strategy for the Forestry Sector to year 2015 |
£45,143 |
£160,857 |
|
Sectoral Consultants Ltd. |
Development of administrative procedures for the implementation of EU assisted afforestation and premium schemes |
£27,918 |
|
|
Dr. G. Gallagher |
Development of a National Forest Inventory and Indicate Forest Strategy and assistance in the technical implementation of EU assisted forestry programmes |
£48,461 |
£45,999 |
|
systems with the Department |
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Geosys, France |
Report to advise the Department in relation to the development of a Geographical Information System (G.I.S.) based on Land Parcel Identification system |
£61,968 |
£49,867 |
|
Coopers & Lybrand Ltd. |
Assist Department in Evaluation of Tenders for Accounts System |
£35,000 |
|
|
Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems |
To provide (1) general advice on implementation of electronic mail and (2) a plan in consultation with the Department's Wide Area Network |
£16,500 |
|
|
Various |
9 Minor Projects |
£37,293 |
|
|
Dr. A. G. Greenwood |
Advice on Zoo Welfare |
£1,732 |
£1,821 |
|
Mr. T. Perfect |
Develop computer system for EU assisted afforestation and premium schemes |
£6,075 |
|
|
Edge/Anderson |
Examination of lorries at Backweston Farm |
£666 |
|
|
Astron |
Setting up of asset register system |
£6,045.00 |
|
|
AIMS Ireland |
SSADM training |
£602.25 |
|
|
Irish Medical Systems |
Upgrade to travel/subsistence system |
£4,688.24 |
|
|
John McCarthy |
Consultancy for development of milk-quota monitoring system |
£564.00 |
|
|
IBM |
Consultancy and support for mainframe operating systems |
£11,707.37 |
|
|
Siemens Nixdorf |
Consultancy and setting-up an E-mail system |
£1,504.00 |
|
|
Imagine/T Ltd. |
Consultancy for development of Irish Horse-register system |
£8,366.00 |
|
|
IBM |
Development and support of operating system |
£5,293.14 |
|
|
Astron |
Setting up of asset-register system |
£2,350.00 |
|
|
John McCarthy |
Consultancy for development of milk-quota |
£1,457.00 |
|
|
Amdahl Marketing |
Review of the mainframe disk sub-system |
£6,580.00 |
|
|
Vision Computing |
Date migration project (for forestry) |
£13,460.80 |
|
|
Digital Equipment |
SQL server consultancy |
427.50 |
|
|
Coopers & Lybrand |
New account consultancy |
£33,294.80 |
|
|
Total |
£702,888.86 |
£914,671.24 |
|
Consultant |
Nature of Work |
Amount Paid |
|
£ |
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|
Craig Gardner/Price Waterhouse |
Review of certain computer systems at a meat processing plant |
12,318 |
|
Odyssey Information Systems |
Upgrading beef intervention computer system |
60,000 |
|
Arthur Andersen |
Beef intervention computer system review |
96,800 |
|
Research and Evaluation Services |
Opardf |
11,335 |
|
Fitzpatrick Associates |
Mid-term review of OPARDF |
20,493 |
|
Curtin Dorgan Associates |
Forestry evaluation |
28,899 |
|
The Circa Group |
Measure 3ii |
11,108 |
|
The Circa Group |
Measure 3ii |
16,662 |
|
Fitzpatrick Associates |
FEOGA |
12,907 |
|
IFA/Brendan Kearney & Associates |
CAP |
5,000 |
|
Fergal O'Brien |
Compendium |
1,102 |
|
Dr. D. McKevitt |
SMI |
1,300 |
|
2 Firms* |
Marine Consultants |
5,680 |
|
International Zoo Veterinary Group |
Zoo and other |
1,053 |
|
Brendan Kearney & Associates |
LEADER |
76,293 |
|
Heneghan & Associates |
LEADER PR |
5,445 |
|
Code 704.08 (From Accountant)** |
Various computer |
356,263 |
|
Maynooth University |
Analysis Work on Pilot Project |
20,000 |
|
TNO Nutrition and Food Research Institute |
Investigation of Carcase Intervention Beef |
10,000 |
|
Total |
752,658 |
|
Consultant |
Nature of Work |
Amount Paid |
|
£ |
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|
Arthur Anderson |
Review of computer requirements/stock control procedures for intervention butter |
4,875 |
|
Arthur Anderson |
Business analysis prior to computerisation of dairying/cereals intervention operations |
50,000 |
|
IBM Ireland Ltd. |
Provision of COBOL Programmes, Specialist training, Specialist SAP Training Consultant |
95,700 |
|
PMI |
Database cleansing |
45,000 |
|
Siercom |
Software consultancy re upgrade of Travel and Subsistence system |
22,800 |
|
Cara Computing Ltd. |
Implementation NT operating system and electronic mail |
17,500 |
|
IBM Ireland |
Supply and Implementation of new computerised Accounting System |
81,000 |
|
H. Griffith & Son Ltd. |
Professional advice of Marine Consultants re approval of ships |
3,379 |
|
K. P. O'Mahony & Co. Ltd. |
581 |
|
|
Cincom |
Programme for Cattle Monitoring System |
180,560.46 |
|
Coopers & Lybrand |
Assistance in implementation of new computerised accounting system |
592,600 |
|
Digital Corporation |
Implementation of a central access server communication. |
1,650 |
|
Dell Corporation |
Upgrading of a document image server |
250 |
|
Dr. M. Crowley |
1. Information Technology Resources Audity |
20,300 |
|
2. Review of processing of 1997 Areas Aid Applications |
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Independent Zoo Consultants from UK |
Inspection of Dublin Zoo - Animal Welfare Monitoring |
1,223 |
|
Fitzpatricks Associates |
Evaluation of FEOGA Marketing and Processing Scheme(1991-93) |
25,813 |
|
Michael Kenny |
Pilot projects Department of Agriculture and Food |
23,445 |
|
Maynooth University |
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|
Irish Rural Link |
Rural Seminars for white paper on Rural Development |
4,289 |
|
STS Management Consultants |
Rural Seminars for white paper on Rural Development |
5,895 |
|
Amdahl |
Update of Microsoft SNA Server Software |
2,100 + VAT |
|
Amdahl |
Installation of 05/390 Operating System |
28,000 + VAT |
|
IBM |
Installation of VM/VSE Year 2000 |
42,000 + VAT |
|
Topology |
Winframe Set-up |
800 + VAT |
|
University of Limerick |
Report on performance measurement in the Department of Agriculture and Food |
2,280 |
|
Breda Lally |
Study on Agrifood contribution to Irish Economy in 1995(re Net Foreign Earnings) |
2,280 |
|
Heneghan Public Relations |
Publicity/Information consultancy for LEADER Programme |
12,555 |
|
Curtain Dorgan & Associates |
Submissions received for white paper on Rural Development |
4,719 |
|
Maynooth University |
Pilot projects for Department of Agriculture and Food |
10,000 |
|
Brendan Kearney & Associates |
Ongoing evaluation of LEADER II |
49,141 |
|
Precision Marketing |
Setting-up of client database for account project |
48,218.50 |
|
Griffin Software |
SCO . consultancy |
1,210.00 |
|
Siemens Nixdorf |
. of disease testing systems fory2k compliance |
81,554.00 |
|
Compaq |
Setting-up of a network for CMMS (cattle movement monitoring system) |
5,244.14 |
|
John McCarthy |
Consultancy for developing of milk-quota monitoring system |
1,210.00 |
|
Total |
1,469,114.10 |
|
Consultant |
Nature of Work |
Amount Paid |
|
£ |
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|
CIRCA Group |
Evaluation of measure 3(ii) of the Food Sub-Programme |
9,100 + VAT |
|
Dr. A. G. Greenwood UK |
Veterinary Work |
1,500 |
|
Brendan Kearney and Associates |
Ongoing evaluation of LEADER II |
61,590 |
|
IBM |
Ongoing computerisation |
1,344,000 |
|
To be put to tender |
Ongoing computerisation |
1,453,000 |
|
Total |
2,869,190 |
