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Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 5 Jul 2001

Vol. 540 No. 3

Written Answers. - Consultancy Contracts.

Bernard J. Durkan

Question:

57 Mr. Durkan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total amount paid to consultancy or public relations firms in the past 12 months in respect of the promotion of the work of the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment or her office; the number of persons engaged in public relations or consultancy work on a full-time basis and on a part-time basis in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20851/01]

Arising from recommendations from the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General, my Department records details of all consultancy type projects, including those in respect of PR, on an interdepartmental consultancy database. The following schedule sets out details of all such consultancies in respect of the years 2000 and 2001. Consultancies that are completed or are ongoing are included. Where consultancies are not yet completed and no payments have as yet been made, the cost included is the estimated final cost of the consultancy.

Press relations for my Department are the responsibility of my Department's press office, which employs five full time civil servants, including one principal officer, one higher executive officer, one executive officer and two clerical officers.

Consultant

Purpose

Cost £

Year

Department of Agribusiness UCD, Business Insight Ltd. and Davy Kelleher McCarthy Ltd.

Examination of allegations into anti-competitive practices in Beef Industry

102,144

2000

Creative Inputs

Corporate ID

13,915

2000

Goodbody Economic Consultants

Retail Planning Guidelines Study

19,236

2000

Indecon Economic Dev. Consultants

Evaluation of Ireland's participation in Expo 2000

87,033

2000

Declan Murphy

Co. Law Review

4,000

2000

Quin & Hampson

Legal Fees

775

2000

O'Hare & Associates

Legal Fees

35,136

2000

Gwen Malone Stenographers

Stenographers Fees

4,251

2000

Doyle Court Reporters

Court reporters costs

3,273

2000

Byrne Curtin Kelly

Witness Costs

363

2000

Howath Bastow Charleton

Liquidation Fees

169,400

2000

Antonio Bueno QC

Legal Fees

87,687

2000

Enterprise Ireland

Testing Services

27,662

2000

O'Mara Geraghty McCourt

Legal Advice

65,050

2000

O'Donovan & Associates

Consumer Credit Advice

55,541

2000

The Radio Centre

Communications Advice

12,584

2000

Price Waterhouse Cooper

BPR

79,376

2000

RG Consultancy

IT System Upgrade

18,845

2000

Kilroys Solicitors

Professional Advice

1,852

2000

Ernst & Young

Determination of appropriate fees

14,600

2000

EDI Factory

Electronic filing project

14,500

2000

Deloitte & Touche

Systems Development

380,000

2000

Clear System Solutions Ltd.

System Development

1,524

2000

Baker Consultants

Website design

6,060

2000

Wall 2 Wall

Public Relations

10,927

2000

McCann Fitzgerald

Legal Advice

2,147

2000

Deloitte & Touche

Organisational Review

61,710

2000

Slattery PR

Public Relations

2,293

2000

CARA Computers

System development and Org. review projects

75,153

2000

Prof. Martin E. Cave

Technical Consultance

2,011

2000

Michael Power

Professional Advice

3,740

2000

James Devlin

Consulting on aspects of consolidating Company Law

40,000

2000

ESRI

Research Study

24,030

2000

Cathy Young

Public Relations

3,837

2000

Adrenalin Ltd

IT Consultancy

2,016

2000

Consultant

Purpose

Cost £

Year

Prose

IT System procurement

49,496

2000

Prose

IT Asset register

19,604

2000

Deloitte & Touche

IT System remedial work

13,297

2000

EPS

IT Bespoke system

19,542

2000

Connect Business Solutions

IT Bespoke system

20,570

2000

Version 1 Software

Database administration

8,712

2000

Sword Ltd

IT System for Patents Office

108,056

2000-01

Irish Marketing Surveys

Survey ebusiness awareness

4,398

2000-01

CARA Computers

System development & Org. review projects

8,986

2001

Enterprise Ireland

Testing Services

1,410

2001

Blue Wave Technology

Professional Advice

4,446

2001

EDI Factory

Electronic filing project

19,000

2001

Deloitte & Touche

System Development

232,000

2001

Justin Dillon

Legal Advice

1,134

2001

Doyle Court Reporters

Court reporters costs

1,600

2001

Byrne Curtin Kelly

Witness Costs

9,495

2001

O'Hare & Associates

Legal Fees

26,399

2001

PricewaterhouseCooper

Organisational Review

103,200

2001

Deloitte & Touche

Management Information Framework

107,280

2001

The Radio Centre

Communications Advice

10,890

2001

O'Donovan & Associates

Consumer Credit Advice

16,254

2001

O'Mara Geraghty McCourt

Legal Advice

18,837

2001

Consumer Association of Ireland

Pricing Surveys

19,982

2001

James Devlin

Consulting on aspects of consolidating Company Law

40,000

2001

Cathy Young

Public Relations

2,519

2001

Adrenalin Ltd

IT Consultancy

4,630

2001

Xwave

E-public services strategy

42,000

2001

Chapman Flood Mazars

Audits of Small Business

38,400

2001

The Circa Group

Evaluation of Training Network Programme

88,980

2001

Tom Martin & Associates

Review of sheltered employment for people with disability

32,580

2001

Arthur Cox Solicitors

Legal Advice

10,200

2001

Watson Wyatt

Professional Advice

34,950

2001

PricewaterhouseCooper

BPR

*41,000

2001

Vizor Ltd

IT System upgrade

*50,151

2001

PricewaterhouseCooper

IT System

*1,297,410

2001

Deloitte & Touche

Euro remedial work

*207,473

2001

Quest Computing Ltd.

Euro remedial work

*42,984

2001

Version Software

Euro remedial work

*55,440

2001

Deloitte & Touche

Audit Work

*50,000

2001

*No payments have been made to date in relation to these consultancies. Amounts refer to their estimated final cost.
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