The following table sets out the 88 reports conducted by external consultants from March 2011 to date:
Report | Name of Consultants | Publication Date | Cost € |
2011 | | | |
Social Welfare Appeals Office – Research on Insurability Issues & Access to Legal Resources | Mel Cousins & Associates | 2011 | €7,744 |
Report on electronic access to GRO Records for genealogy research | John Grenham | Internal Management Report | €3,557 |
Investigation of odour/smells, Belmullet Local Office | Wright Environmental Services | Internal Management Report | €1,699 |
Investigation of odour/smells, Local office Cobh | Employment Health Advisors Ltd. | Internal Management Report | €2,023 |
Development & implementation of the National Employment & Entitlements Service | Accenture | August 2011 | €186,563 |
Report on Pension Charges in Ireland | PWC | October 2012 | €61,500 |
Social Inclusion Forum – Conference Report | Aidan Lloyd | August 2012 | €1,500 |
2012 | | | |
FÁS IS Applications Systems Review | Accenture | Internal Management Report | €44,772 |
Analysis & Measurement of Poverty & Deprivation 2012:1.Work & Poverty in Ireland: An Analysis of CSO Survey on Income & Living Conditions 2004-2010 (2012 annual report)2. Technical Paper on Poverty Indicators – [Appendix C of Report of the Review of the National Poverty Target]3. Implications of Income Pooling & Household Decision-Making for Poverty & Deprivation (2012 technical paper) | ESRI | 1. December 2012 2. October 2012 3. October 2013 | €81,230 |
Review of Irish Pensions Policy | OECD | April 2013 | €130,000 |
Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund | KPMG | June 2012 | €153,750 |
Evaluation of JobBridge | Indecon International Economic Consultants | April 2013 | €59,555 |
Developing system architecture for the National Employment & Entitlements Service | Compass Point | Internal Management Report | €4,600 |
Risk assessments regarding reception areas [Arklow, Tallaght, & Kings Inn, Dublin Local Offices] | Nifast | Internal Management Report | €1,845 |
Air Quality Investigation, Ballymun Local Office | Wright Environmental Services | Internal Management Report | €3,644 |
Air Quality Investigation, Áras Mhic Dhiarmada | Wright Environmental Services | Internal Management Report | €3,383 |
Report on Pension Priority Order | Mercer | February 2013 | €18,450 |
Contracted Employment Service Model | Centre for Economic & Social Inclusion | Internal Management Report | €140,989 |
2013 | | | |
Mobile Applications Opportunity Exploration | Accenture | Internal Management Report | €33,388 |
Social Inclusion Forum – Conference Report | Aidan Lloyd | September 2013 | €1,500 |
Health & Safety Review of DSP premises, Upper Gardiner St, Dublin 1 | CPL Training Ltd, trading as Nifast Health & Safety Training | Internal Management Report | €1,100 |
Diet Supplement Diet Costings Update | Irish Nutrition & Dietetic Institute | September 2013 | €4,000 |
Analysis & Measurement of Poverty & Social Exclusion (AMPSE) 2013 programme:1. Social Transfers & Poverty in Boom & Recession (for 2013 annual report) 2. Indicators of Economic Strain in the Great Recession (for 2013 technical paper) | ESRI | 1. December 2013 2. April 2014 | €67,979 |
Auto Enrolment & Applicability to Ireland (Pensions) | TOR Financial Consulting Ltd. | Internal Management Report | €9,900 |
A Review of In-work Supports for the Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare | Mel Cousins & Associates | Q4 2014 | €10,000 |
Delivery of Administrative Profiling Models to Identify those at Risk of Labour Market Disadvantage | ESRI | June 2014 | €33,745 |
Report on Organisation Development | Axiom Consultants | Internal Management Report | €122,692 |
Advisory report on implementation of European Youth Guarantee in Irish circumstances | Organisation for Economic co-operation & Development (OECD) | January 2014 | €50,000 |
Evaluation of the Youth Guarantee Pilot | Franklin Research Ltd. | January 2015 | €20,000 (EU funded Report) |
Evaluation Research (Back to Education Allowance) | ESRI | October 2015 | €24,809 |
Survey Air quality in Nutgrove Local Office | Wright Environmental Services | Internal Management Report | €2,900 |
Social Welfare Appeals Office – Research into Revising Decisions | Mel Cousins & Associates | Internal Management Report | €2,400 |
2014 | | | |
Social Inclusion Forum – Conference Report | Aidan Lloyd | December 2014 | €1,650 |
Analysis & Measurement of Poverty & Social Exclusion 2014 programme: 1. Transitions into and out of household joblessness using CSO SILC data 2. Measuring Irish joblessness: The SILC and LFS data sources | ESRI | 1. September 20152. May 2015 | €80,000 |
Security Partner Services - IT Forensics | Deloitte | Internal Management Report | €2,398 |
Forensic Services | Rits | Internal Management Report | €2,340 |
Forensic Services | Rits | Internal Management Report | €4,201 |
Identification & containment of malicious software | Deloitte | Internal Management Report | €15,699 |
Assessment for Application Lifecycle Management | Microsoft Ireland | Internal Management Report | €22,586 |
Ex-ante Evaluation to support the preparation of the Operational Programme for the European Fund for the Most Deprived 2014-2020 | Mel Cousins & Associates | Internal report required by EU Regulation (EU) No. 223/2014 | €16,000 |
Microfilm Condition Report | Martin Bradley, Archives and Records Management Consultant | Internal Management Report | €1,691 |
Report on the effectiveness & efficiency of the guidance model used during Youth Guarantee Pilot | NUI Maynooth | Internal Management Report | €14,145 (EU funded report) |
Survey Air quality in Waterford Intreo | Wright Environmental Services | Internal Management Report | €6,863 |
2015 | | | |
Review of the EmployAbility (Supported Employment) Service | Indecon International Economic Consultants | August 2016 | €59,280 |
Policy and practice report: Key lessons learned from the Ballymun Youth Guarantee Project | NUI Maynooth | March 2015 | €11,135 (EU funded Report) |
Evaluation of the Disability Activation Project | Indecon International Economic Consultants | November 2015 | €29,520 |
Forensic Services | Rits | Internal Management Report | €11,480 |
Windows Tablet PC Hardening Review (Limited Scope) | Deloitte | Internal Management Report | €4,151 |
Social Inclusion Forum – Conference Report | Aidan Lloyd | August 2016 | €1,650 |
Confidential Information Security Report | Deloitte | Internal Management Report | €7,749 |
Technical review of rent supplement under the Equal Status Acts. | Mel Cousins & Associates | Internal Management Report | €18,000 |
Jobseeker Customer Satisfaction Survey | W5 Marketing Intelligence Ltd | Q2 2016 | €72,385 |
Analysis & Measurement of Poverty & Social Exclusion 2015 Programme:1. Changes in social risks by life-cycle group2. Developing a multi-dimensional quality of life indicator | ESRI | November 2016 July 2016 | €80,000 |
Evaluation of the Suitability, Effectiveness and Relevance of the JobBridge Activation Programme | Indecon International Economic Consultants | October 2016 | €134,895 |
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Activation Reforms | ESRI | Q2 2017 (Still in progress) | €118,315 |
External quality assessment of DSP Internal Audit under the D/PER Internal Audit standards 2012 | EisnerAmper Ireland | Internal Management Report | €5,535 |
Information Security Reports | Grant Thornton | Internal Management Report | €10,332 |
2016 | | | |
Review of the Local Employment Services and Job Club services | Indecon International Economic Consultants | Published in 2018 | €87,232 |
Review of the Predictive Analytic Modelling Solutions relevant to the Department's schemes | The Analytics Store Ltd. | Internal Management Report | €9,471 |
Back to Education Allowance Qualitative Study | BMG Research | Q2 2017 | €50,670 |
Jobseeker Customer Satisfaction Survey 2016 (Next annual round of Customer Satisfaction Survey originally commissioned in Aug 2015) | W5 Marketing Intelligence Ltd | Q4 2016 &Q2 2017 | €124,550 |
Social Inclusion Forum 2016 – Conference Report | Aidan Lloyd | Q2 2017 | €1,650 |
Measurement and Analysis of Household Income & Living Conditions 2017 Programme:1. Technical paper: examine the feasibility of conducting dynamic analysis to explore poverty and deprivation transitions over time and between different social risk groups2. Research report: examine the poverty and deprivation experience of the different risk groups, both dynamically and across a set of selected EU-countries | ESRI | 1. Q3 2017 2. Q4 2017 | €94,070 |
Joint Research Programme on Retirement | ESRI | Expected publication date Q.3 2019 | €29,500 |
Research into Development of Pensions, Longer Working Hours and Retirement Policy | ESRI | October 2017 | €32,000 |
2017 | | | |
Jobseeker Customer Satisfaction Survey 2017 (Next annual round of Customer Satisfaction Survey originally commissioned in Aug 2015) | W5 Marketing Intelligence Ltd | Q4 2017Q2 2018 | €167,674 |
Actuarial Review of the Social Welfare Insurance Fund as at 31 December 2015 | KPMG | Q3 2017 | €281,670 |
Compliance of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 | Mazars | Internal Management Report | €301,350 |
Independent Review of the amendments to the One-Parent Family payment since Jan 2012 | Indecon | October 2017 | €104,944 |
Strategic Review of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection’s website | Clickworks and iReach | Internal Management Report | €59,100 |
Survey of Employers (including JobPlus employers) | W5 Marketing Intelligence Ltd. | May 2018 | €30,750 |
Social Inclusion Forum 2017 – Conference Report | Lisa Costello | Q2 2018 | €1,750 |
Study to explore the drivers of negative employment outcomes on participants of the Back to Education Scheme | BMG Research | Q2 2017 | €41,228 |
2018 | | | |
Economic Analysis of Auto-Enrolment Options | ESRI | Publication to be determined in line with any future Government decisions on Automatic- Enrolment | €25,000 |
Jobseeker Customer Satisfaction Survey 2018 | W5 Marketing Intelligence Ltd. | 2018 | €121,228 |
Joint Research Programme on Gender and Pensions | ESRI | Q4 2018 | €80,000 |
Pension Accounting Advice on Post-Employment Benefits | Mazars | Internal Management Report | €4,428 |
Review of the Implementation of the New Illness Benefit System | Liam Irwin | Internal Management Report | €6,000 (estimated cost) |
Social Inclusion Forum 2018 – Conference Report | Peigín Doyle | Q 2 2019 | €1,443 |
Health and Safety Audit of the Department's Print and Stationery Stores | Quadra Consulting | Internal Management Report | €1,722 |
2019 | | | |
An Initial Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Intreo Activation Reforms | ESRI | Q1 2019 | €82,820 |
Static Electricity Survey of Kennedy House, Navan | Chris Mee Group | Internal Management Report | €2,460 |