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Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 10 February 2009

Tuesday, 10 February 2009

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Damien English

Question:

139 Deputy Damien English asked the Taoiseach the private consultancy firms his Department used during the periods 1 January to 14 October 2008 and 15 October 2008 to date in 2009; the projects each worked on; the cost to his Department for each project; and if he will provide the information in tabular readable form. [4821/09]

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There has been no spend by my Department on private consultancy firms to date in 2009. The following table details the consultancy firms used by my Department in 2008, the projects worked on and the cost for each project.

One contract was awarded after 14th October 2008 which is highlighted in the following table.

Details of payment made in 2008 (Jan-December)

Name of Consultant

Details of Project

Total cost of Project

Department

Grant Thornton

Forensic accounting services in respect of issues pertaining to an industrial relations dispute at Aer Lingus (the services were commissioned by the National Implementation Body to assist in resolving industrial relations issues at Aer Lingus).

75,120

Goodbody

Provision of assistance with the drafting of a Regulatory Impact Analysis on a legislative proposal.

7,200

RA Consulting

Employee Opinion Survey — 2nd Tranche

9,030

QTS Limited

Annual Risk Assessment — health and safety

1,694

Ipsos Mori

Phase 2 of 2007 QCS Survey

9,952

Hudson Talent Management

Survey, deployment, analysis and reporting for the Organisational Review Programme

45,552

PA Consulting Group

16 days professional services for Organisational Review Programme

46,775

Raymond Burke Consulting*awarded after 14th October 2008

NESDO Review

3,376

National Forum on Europe

Austin Butler Design

“Getting ready for the Referendum”

647

Caroline Erskine

Media Relations Services

124,154

Lansdowne Market Research

Study Research

6,292

Ireland Newfoundland Partnership

Bernadette Kiely

Interviewing for the INP Business Development Position

1,028

Change Management Fund, Department of Finance

The Economist Intelligence Unit

To conduct an independent Review of the Economic Regulatory Environment to compare the performance of Irish sectoral regulators against their international counterparts

382,852

Isolde Goggins

Facilitator for workshop on review of the Economic Regulatory Environment

1,815

Isolde Goggins and Gillian Lauder

Review of the Operation of Regulatory Impact analysis (RIA). In line with the terms of Towards 2016, an independent review of the operation of RIA was commissioned to assess the effectiveness of the current RIA model across Departments.

85,305

Ipsos Mori

Compilation and presentation of Civil Service Customer Satisfaction survey

69,817

Goodbody

Provision of economic assistance with the application of Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) across Government Departments

18,905

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