Departmental Contracts Data

Tuesday, 4 December 2018

Questions (103)

Barry Cowen

Question:

103. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the external consultant reports commissioned by his Department in each of the years from March 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the cost of same; the company involved; and the report title and publication date, in tabular form. [50093/18]

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Minister of State at the Department of Defence

The following table provides details of the external consultant reports commissioned by my Department in each of the years March 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the costs of those reports; the companies commissioned to completed the reports; and their titles and publication dates.

Report Title	Cost	Year of Commission	External Company	Publication Date
An independent review of United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) fatalities in 1989	€51,660	2011	Mr. Frank Callinan S.C.	19 September 2011
Third Report of Independent Monitoring Group (IMG)	€22,500	2013	Dr. Eileen Doyle	3 September 2014
Consultancy report to access the impact of an upgrade of the Department's financial application software	€24,870.60	2014	Fujitsu Ltd.	30 January 2015
Research on vessels linked to Roger Casement	€4,605	2015	Mr. John Kearon	Not published
Independent Review of the investigation of the death of Pte Hugh Doherty and the disappearance of Pte Kevin Joyce (Caomhán Seoighe) on 27 April 1981 while serving with IrishBatt in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)	€33,665.55 (total cost, including editing fees of €1,500)	2015	Retired High Court Judge Mr. Roderick Murphy. Editing work conducted by Mr. Jim Blighe	8 June 2018
Aviation Regulation, Oversight and Safety Management in the Defence Organisation	€35,000	2017	Bureau Veritas	Not published
Report on the Review of the Conciliation and Arbitration Scheme for Members of the Permanent Defence Forces	€6,000	2018	Mr. Gerard Barry	2 October 2018

The following deferred reply was received under Standing Order 42A

On 4 December 2018, the Deputy asked the following Parliamentary Question:

"To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the external consultant reports commissioned by his Department in each of the years March 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018: the cost of same; the company involved; and the title and publication date by report in tabular form." (PQ Ref No 50093/18)

In response I provided a table with details of external consultant reports commissioned by the Department of Defence in each of the years from March 2011 to 2017 and to 4 December 2018. The table also included the costs of those reports, details of the companies commissioned to complete the reports and their titles and publication dates.

It has now come to my attention that in preparing the reply to your question details of one further external consultant's report was omitted. The report in question was a review of communications in Civil Defence. The report was completed in 2016 by Mr. Ciaran Motherway at a cost of €1,400.

The omission of this information on 4 December last was due entirely to an administrative oversight in preparing the reply. Please accept my apologies in this regard and I can confirm that I have directed that revised arrangements are put in place within my Department to ensure something similar cannot reoccur in the future. I have already sent the above information to the Oireachtas Questions Office asking that it update the response previously provided to Parliamentary Question 50093/18 so that the reply on the record reflects the accurate position.