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Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 19 January 2022

Wednesday, 19 January 2022

Questions (1113)

Seán Sherlock

Question:

1113. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount spent on consultancy services by his Department in 2021; the reason for each consultancy; and the name of the consultancy in tabular form. [1712/22]

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My department has identified the following consultancy contracts with spend during 2021 in the table below.

Name

Reason

Insights Health and Social Research

A report into the findings of a consultation with children and young people on their experience   of interventions under the Child Care Act 1991; and, a summary desk review of the evaluation of Tusla’s Children’s Participation Work Package under Prevention, Partnership and Family Support Programme.

Frontier Economics

Provision of research support and advice to the expert group convened by the Minister to   develop a New Funding Model for Early Learning

Paul Boland Consultancy / Invision Software

Lotus Notes administration and migration services

BID t/a BID Services and Public Procurement Services

Procurement tendering and general procurement advice

ACE Communication Ltd

Provision of review, analysis, summary and reporting on the written submissions made as part of the public consultation on Ireland’s First Report under the UN Convention on   the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) 

ACE Communications

Review, analysis, summary and reporting on the written submissions made as part of the public   consultation on Ireland’s First Report under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Satya Brink

Provision of expert advice for phase 2 of Growing Up in Ireland - the National Longitudinal Study   of Children

Ann Sanson

Provision of expert advice for phase 2 of Growing Up in Ireland - the National Longitudinal Study   of Children

Angela Palmer

Research and information specialist services in the areas of child protection and welfare and children in care

Dolores Sullivan

Expertise in Legal Researcher specifically in the context of an investigation under the   Commission of Investigations Act 2004

Centre for Effective Services (CES)

Provision of specialist expertise for the co-ordination and management of the Quality and   Capacity Building Initiative

University of Derby

An End of Year Three Evaluation of the Access and Inclusion Model (AIM)

Mazars

A scoping review to help develop a proposed new birth cohort for the Growing Up in Ireland study

Castlebridge

Expert advice in relation to GDPR, in particular, but not limited to SARs, on receipt of   database and records from the Mother & Baby Home Commission of Inquiry

Mindshare

(Lot 2) Republic of Ireland Media Strategy, Planning & Buying (Implementation) Services

ESRI

Phase 2 of 'Growing Up in Ireland', the National Longitudinal Study of Children

ESRI

Membership to SWITCH Steering Group

Datatrails

Data Protection Expertise 

WhiteLight   Consulting Ltd.

Online consultation session on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

Baker Tilly             

Review of capacity at Senior Management Team level with a specific focus on 2021 strategic   priorities

The total spend in 2021 for the above mentioned consultancy was €5,389,730.52.

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