Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Wednesday, 30 Oct 1996

Vol. 470 No. 7

Written Answers. - Consultancy Costs.

Seán Ryan

Ceist:

58 Mr. S. Ryan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide details of expenditure on consultancy in his Department in 1995 or the most recent year for which figures are available; and if he will provide an analysis of this expenditure as a proportion of staffing and administration costs. [19725/96]

Seán Ryan

Ceist:

59 Mr. S. Ryan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will give details of the overall expenditure on consultancy by his Department in each of the years 1985, 1990 and 1995, or the most recent year for which completed figures are available; and if he will provide an analysis of these figures as a proportion of overall staffing and administration costs for each of these years. [19726/96]

Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Spring)

I propose to take Questions Nos.58 and 59 together.

I refer the Deputy to my reply of 13 December 1995 to Question No.60 for details of consultancy costs in the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Office of the Tánaiste in 1995. There have been a number of changes from this position since then:

Vote 38 — Department of Foreign Affairs — The final cost of the staff training consultant was £350.00. No expenditure was incurred by the Department in 1995 in respect of a study on staff appraisal. This gives a total cost for consultancies in the Vote for Foreign Affairs for 1995 of £65,722.36. This represents 0.14 per cent of the net expenditure within this Vote.

Vote 39 — International Co-operation

Name	Specific Project	Total cost in 1995
	Lesotho	IR£
Mr. Edmund Cahill	Microinformatics Training	626.00
Ms Winifred O'Neill	Cytology Screening Project	1,560.00
Mr. Philip Callery	Ministry of Works	2,250.00
Mr. Bernard Pierce	CAS	4,195.00
Mr. Philip Ryan	CAS	15,713.00
Mr. Paul Crowe	Rural Footbridges Project	2,355.00
	Tanzania
Ms Anne Bourke-Garcia	Kiloso Heath	11,962.00
Mr. Brian Lewis	SLDP Pemba	1,566.00
Mr. Garvan McCann	SLDP Pemba	21,133.00
Mr. Alan King	Sokoine Extension Project	7,614.00
Mr. Joe Mullen	Kilosa District Programme Review	13,261.00
Mr. Patrick Lavin	Education Planning Mission	14,779.00
	Zambia
Ms Florence Armstrong	Kasama Education Project	15,878.00
Mr. John Grindle	Zambia Country Review	9,520.00
Dr. Mona Tyndall	Kitwe Maternity Clinics	5,750.00
Dr. Cliona Foley-Nolan	HIV Testing Project	1,592.00
Ms. Philomena Tuite	Land use	6,246.00
Mr. Bob Bowman	Tourism Project	5,371.00
	Ethiopia
Mr. John Kevany	Jimma Health Project	4,000.00
Ms Shane Allwright	Jimma Health Project	3,703.00
	Mozambique
CIE Consult	Feasibility Study on rehab. of Railway lines	25,000.00
	Other Projects
Mr. Austin Mescal	CGIAR/Agricultural Project	750.00
Ms. Colette Craven	Rwanda Feasibility Study	300.00
Mr. Frits Wils	NGO Co-Financing Scheme Review	8,191.00
Ms. Cathy Gaynor	Development of Gender Guidelines	7,873.00
Mr. Donal Corcoran	Computerisation of Division's Accounts	5,505.00
Mr. Boem VanRavenswaaj	Fellowship Programme Review	6,766.00
Mr. Jim McCabe	Fellowship Programme Review	10,505.00
Ms Clodagh McCumiskey	Fellowship Programme Review	240.00
Ms Detta Collins	NGO Review	2,000.00
Dr. Margaret Fitzgerald	Primary Health Care Evaluation	2,618.00
Environmental Development Consultants Ltd	Environmental Assessment of KDDP	16,800.00
Total		235,622.00

The total expenditure on consultancy was £235,622.00 which is equivalent to 0.6 per cent of the Bilateral Aid Programme expenditure within the 1995 Vote for International Co-operation.

There is no change in the details given in my reply of 13 December 1995 to Question No. 60 for the Office of the Tánaiste.

Details of consultancy costs for 1990 and 1985 are not readily accessible and it would not be possible to provide this information in the time available.