Departmental Contracts Data

Tuesday, 4 December 2018

Questions (616)

Barry Cowen

Question:

616. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development 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. [50102/18]

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Minister for Rural and Community Development

My Department was established on 19 July 2017. I have listed in the following table the external consultants commissioned to undertake work on behalf of my Department from that date, to-date.

In each case the reports/material produced were for internal or stakeholder use only, and not for external publication.

Title	Company	Cost €	Date published
Provision of Technical Support for the development of Shared Telecoms Infrastructure by Local Authorities	4SITE	€19,767.00 (Incl. VAT)	Final technical drawings were received 9 November 2018. 4Site documents were for internal use only and were not published externally.
Provision of Development of Local Digital Strategies for all Local Authorities	Indecon International Economic Consultants	€149,246.97 (Incl. VAT)	Expert workshops run on 25/26 June 2018. Final guidelines for development of strategies issued 25 September 2018. Local Digital Strategies were published to each individual local authority and were not published externally.
Preparation of guidance & delivery of training for local authorities & industry on environmental screening / appropriate assessment of works in relation to rollout of telecommunications infrastructure, primarily related to the rollout the National Broadband Plan. The Environmental screening piece will also be only for internal/local authority use and will not be published externally.	RPS	€79,089 (Incl. VAT)	Due Q2 2019
Internal report to assist in developing our HR strategy	Athrú Consulting	€15,000 estd.	An internal report to assist in developing our HR strategy at an estimated cost of 15,000 work due for completion January 2019.
Project Management Assistance KOSI Corporation Ltd	KOSI Corporation	€12,822.75 (incl vat)	Project Management Assistance, a report will not be published.