Departmental Reports

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 16 June 2015

Tuesday, 16 June 2015

Questions (625)

Barry Cowen

Question:

625. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, by year, all external consultant reports commissioned by his Department since March 2011; the costs per report; the company involved; the title of the report; and publication date. [23699/15]

Written answers

Minister for Health

It is the policy in my Department only to engage the services of external consultants where it is felt to be appropriate and cost-effective, taking account of Government decisions and policy on the matter. The information requested by the Deputy is presented in the following table for the period March 2011 to June 2014, as per my reply to the Deputy of July 2014

I will revert to the Deputy should the Department have engaged any consultants to prepare reports since then.

Year	Organisation/ Consultants	Name of External Report	Current status of the Report	Amount/ Cost
2014	Sinéad Shannon	Review of the international evidence and literature on selection criteria for the Outcomes Framework (Whilst this piece of research which was commissioned in December and approved in January, no payments have been made to date)	Ongoing	5,000
2013	Prospectus Strategy Consultants	Review of Staffing Resources and Organisational Structure of the Department of Health	Report completed but not published, for Department's use only	72,940
2013	Deloitte and Touche Consultants Ltd	Review of the Nursing Homes Support Scheme	Ongoing	36,900
2013	Matheson Ormsby Prentice	Legal Research and advisory services on the design and implementation of an insurance based health system providing universal coverage in Ireland	Not Published	123,000
2013	Prof Oonagh Walsh	Report on symphysiotomy in Ireland, 1944-1984	Not published	49,500
2013	Ernst & Young	Reports relating to the development of the Programme Management Office (cost includes a range of consultancy services)	Ongoing – internal reports	79,212
2013	Dr Sinead Hanafin & Associates	Review of the Traveller Health Advisory Committee	Finalised	6,150
2013	Prospectus	Overview of the development of the Health & Wellbeing Programme	Finalised	15,156
2013	Research Matters	Provision of Research Management Services	Ongoing	74,490
2013	Institute of Public Health	Analysis re Consultation (Tobacco Products Directive)	Completed - not yet published	5,000
2013	Professor Hammond	Research on Standardised Packaging- Irish Context	Ongoing	5,000
2013	CJP Consultants	Preparation of report on the efficacy of minimum pricing and other public policies for alcohol.	Published on website	31,488
2013	Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland	Annual Report of the Alcohol Marketing Communications Monitoring Body (AMCMB)	Published	21,115
2012	McGee Pharma International	Labelling of Medicinal Products in both Irish and English	Completed	13,644
2012	Goodbody Stockbrokers and Matheson Ormsby Prentice Solicitors	Further Analysis of Options in relation to the restructuring of the Irish Private Health Insurance Market	Report completed	62,349
2012	Department of Public Expenditure and Reform with the assistance of PwC	Review of the Department of Health's Parliamentary and Legislative Processes	Report completed but not published - for Department's use only	18,020
2012	Department of Public Expenditure and Reform	A survey of experience and qualifications in the Department of Health	Report completed but not published - for Department's use only	None
2012	Michael Collins Associates	Supplementary Report and Addendum on Cost Comparison for the Dolphin Review Group	Completed not published, commercially sensitive	12,423
2012	John Martin	Further assessment of planning issues in relation to proposed sites for the Dolphin Review Group	Published	6,000
2012	Simon Clear	Further assessment of planning issues in relation to proposed sites for the Dolphin Review Group	Published	9,475
2012	The Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCC, in conjunction with the Centre for Health Policy and Management, TCD.	The Efficiency Review of the BreastCheck Screening Programme	Published February 2013	71,270
2012	Mr Gerard Mullaly	Reforming Chronic Care: Financing and Delivering Integrated Chronic Care	Not published	5,227
2012	Mr Gerard Mullaly	The Integrated Continuing Care System (ICCS): Reforming Elderly Care in Ireland	Not published	7,558
2012	Matheson Ormsby Prentice	Options Appraisal of multi-payer universal health insurance models: Preliminary advice	Not Published	6,150
2012	Department of Health / SIRA Consulting	Report on the baseline measurement of the administrative burden from the Department of Health (as part of a cross Departmental project coordinated by Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation)	Published 2013	14,000
2011	Goodbody Stockbrokers and Matheson Ormsby Prentice Solicitors	Commissioned to undertake a review of the Irish Private Health Insurance Market in relation to the options which may exist for re-balancing	Report completed	300,000