Consultancy Contracts Issues

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 17 October 2012

Wednesday, 17 October 2012

Questions (131)

Mary Lou McDonald

Question:

131. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details in tabular form for the years 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012 the total amount of expenditure on consultancy by his Department, any body under his aegis or State agency for which he has responsibility; the names of the consultancy companies awarded contracts; the nature of the work concerned; the fees paid to each consultant; if the matter was advertised for competitive tender; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45295/12]

Written answers

Minister for Education and Skills

The information sought in relation to expenditure on consultancy by my Department is outlined in the following table.With regard to agencies under the aegis of my Department the information sought is a matter for each agency and is not collated centrally. If the Deputy has an interest in a particular agency then officials in my Department will request the agency concerned to provide the relevant information insofar as it is possible.

	YEAR 2012 from 1/01/2012 to 31/08/2012
Consultant	Purpose	Total Cost
		€
Mokum Change Management	Oracle Training & Support & Oracle Functional Consultancy Fees May & June 2012 includes supply of service (4th schedule) vat at 23% (part of the Department's Performance Budgeting and Vote Restructuring Project	€7,522.99
Version 1	Functional and Training consultancy as part of the Department's Performance Budgeting and Vote Restructuring Project	€2,070.00
Pat McLoughlin (former CEO Eastern Health Board)	Expenses related to work on the Independent Panel set up re the establishment of a Single Grant Awarding Authority in 2011.	€83.66
Sir Jim Rose	Expenses in relation to his work as International Expert for Literacy & Numeracy Implementation Group meetings.	€2,462.84
Analyses Mason	Technical commercial and financial advice in the procurement of broadband services for schools	€52,040.42
Mazars	Audit of Labour Market Activation Projects co-funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) Human Capital Investment Operational Programme (HCI OP) 2007-2013	€9,839.14
Deloitte	2011 Annual Declaration of Assurancefor the leargas Lifelong Learning Programme and the HEA Lifelong Learning Erasmus Programme.	€16,568.10
WRC Social & Economic Consultants	Provision of Administrative & Technical support to the European Globalisation Fund Managing Authority	€210,059.40
	2012 Total:	€300,646.55