Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 16 October 2012
412. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the project supervision costs incurred by way of professional or consultants fees for a regeneration project (details supplied) in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44441/12]
View answerMy Department supports an ambitious programme of regeneration projects to deliver integrated physical, social and economic regeneration, ranging from large-scale urban regeneration projects such as Ballymun and Limerick city to smaller estate regeneration projects in a number of regional towns around the country , including Tralee . In 2009, over €100 million was provided by my Department to support the National Regeneration Programme. Of this €2.26 m was recouped to Tralee Town Council in respect of the Mitchels Crescent/Boherbee Regeneration project.
In the case of complex regeneration schemes, professional staff are involved at every stage in the project life cycle ranging from initial socio-economic appraisal, planning and design, preparation of contract documents, procurement of services and works contracts, construction supervision and post project review. Depending on the availability of resources within individual authorities and the competencies and skill-sets required to progress projects through the various stages, project staff may be assigned to a regeneration scheme from within an authority’s own staff complement or may be procured through open competition by way of fixed term or services contract. Contract management and project supervision costs may be project-specific or may, in cases such as engineering services, health and safety services contracts or other specialist service provision, relate to a number of projects under a particular regeneration scheme.
Based on the information available in my Department, it is not possible with the necessary degree of certainty to disaggregate consultant and project management/supervision fees in the case of the various regeneration projects which were being progressed by Tralee Town Council over the course of 2009.
