Phil Hogan
Ceist:310 Mr. Hogan asked the Minister for Education and Science the names, duties and rates of remuneration of all public relations consultants or other consultants engaged by his Department from 26 June 1997 to date. [6264/98]
Vol. 488 No. 4
310 Mr. Hogan asked the Minister for Education and Science the names, duties and rates of remuneration of all public relations consultants or other consultants engaged by his Department from 26 June 1997 to date. [6264/98]
Since 26 June 1997 no public relation consultants have been engaged by my Department.
The following tabular statement gives the details requested by the Deputy in respect of other consultants engaged by my Department for the period in question.
Consultancies
Name |
Purpose |
Cost 26/6/97 - 10/3/98 |
Noel Recruitment |
Organisation of recruitment of EmployeeAssistance Officers for the EmployeeAssistance Scheme for teachers |
£19,791* |
The CIRCA Group |
Implementation of the Public Service Management Act, 1997 |
No expenditure to date (Estimate — £50,820)* |
The CIRCA Group |
Support of research and related activity in third-level institutions |
4,750 |
Quest Computing Ltd. |
Development of report programmes for the Post-Primary Teachers Personnel System |
£4,356 |
Children's Centre, Trinity College, Dublin |
Evaluation of Crime Awareness Programme within Youthreach |
£8,000 |
The CIRCA Group |
Assignment in relation to the establishment of a fund for the support of research and related activity in third-level institutions |
£4,658 |
Dr. Maurice Bric, National University of Ireland |
Options to improve the support of research in the Humanities and Social Sciences |
£4,500 |
Mr. Sé amus Ó hUallacháin |
Assignment for the Interim Review Group for Institute of Technology Sector |
£1,700 |
Mr. Sé amus Ó hUallacháin |
Expenditure Review of the Linguistics Institute of Ireland |
£2,500 |
Hay MLS Management |
Preparation of Competency Model for Director Post, National Centre for Technology in Education |
£1,800 |
Quest Computing Ltd. |
Programmes for the purposes of validating data for the Leaving Certificate Applied |
£5,008 |
Quest Computing Ltd. |
Software reports for the Post Primary Teachers database and installation of software |
£4,840 |
Sequel Technology Ltd. |
Pilot project to upgrade ORACLE based software |
£2,180 |
Gartner Group UK Ltd. |
Expert IT advisory service to the Department |
£7,619 |
Mr. Dermot Rochford, Staff |
Review of functions and administrative/organisational structures of the amalgamated vocational education committees (amalgamation of the five Town vocational education committees with their respective counties) Relations Services |
£18,500 |
IPA Consultants |
Review of salary levels for Registrars and Secretaries/Financial Controllers in the Institutes of Technology |
£12,000 |
LAN Communications |
Freedom of Information Records Management Report |
£33,117 |