Vol. 502 No. 6
256 Mr. M. Higgins asked the Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs the ad hoc advisory committees and groups in relation to policy or implementation, the statutory committees, permanent groups, interdepartmental groups, advisers, consultants and unestablished civil servants appointed in his Department; and the cost or remuneration in each case paid since July 1997 to date. [8701/99]
As I indicated in my reply to the Deputy on 24 March 1999, there is, at any one time, a range of working groups and committees involved in aspects of the Department's business. Many of these are set up on an ad hoc basis to address particular issues and details are not available as to the number and nature of all of these.
A number of groups, committees have been set up by the Department involving representatives of other agencies and bodies. These include the following: working group on women's access to labour market opportunities, small business users' forum, a business users' panel, steering committee for the White Paper on Supporting Voluntary Activity, interdepartmental committee on the National Anti-Poverty Strategy, Interdepartmental Community Trust Working Group, Community Development Programme Advisory Committee, Community Development Programme Technical Group, National Advisory Committee on the Money Advice and Budgeting Service, Disability Consultative Forum, Interdepartmental Working Group on the Treatment of Married Cohabiting and One-Parent Households under the tax and social welfare codes, Interdepartmental Committee on an Integrated Social Services System, supplementary welfare allowance scheme – four working groups with the health boards on aspects of the scheme, programme evaluation working groups, the number of which varies from time to time.
No unestablished civil servants were appointed in my Department in relation to such committees or groups. There is one special adviser to the Minister who has been appointed from the private sector. He is paid at the maximum point of the principal officer scale, currently £47,713 per annum exclusive of pension contribution. A personal secretary has been appointed at a net additional cost per year to the Exchequer of £860 and a personal assistant at a net additional cost per year to the Exchequer of £1,165. This compares very favourably with the regime of advisers etc. installed in this office during the Rainbow Government's time.
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£ |
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Alignment Consulting |
9,346.87 |
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Andersen Consulting |
144,008.70 |
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Centre for Women's Studies |
4,005.00 |
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CFM Group Ltd. |
6,1513.37 |
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Clear System Solutions Ltd. |
574.75 |
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Colgan and Associates |
28,225.27 |
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Compaq Computer Ireland Limited |
71,195.80 |
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Coopers & Lybrand |
21,068.00 |
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Crotty Design Management |
3,813.32 |
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Delphi Software Ltd. |
6,655.00 |
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Department of Health and Social Services |
58,683.21 |
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Digital Equipment Ireland Ltd. |
79,642.20 |
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Eustace Patterson Ltd. |
38,580.00 |
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Exselan Computer Systems |
1,332.29 |
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Fitzpatrick Associates Economic Consultants Ltd. |
8,356.73 |
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Gartner Group UK Limited |
60,703.63 |
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GEAC Computer Systems UK Ltd. |
8,161.21 |
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Goodbody Economic Consultants Limited |
53,097.80 |
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Irish Pensions Trust Limited |
69,091.00 |
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Kelleher Associates |
21,000.00 |
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The Pensions Board |
15,724.90 |
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ICL CFM |
4,842.81 |
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ICL Computers Irl. Ltd. |
8,787.63 |
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Microsoft Consulting |
12,100.00 |
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Pixel Foundation |
12,450.33 |
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Price Waterhouse |
43,197.00 |
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Setanta Communications Ltd. |
2,420.00 |
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Sourcelines Training Consultancy |
1,900.00 |
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Trinity Mail |
1,815.00 |
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Work Research Co-operative Ltd. |
11,005.72 |
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Edward Delany & Associates |
2,178.00 |
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Peter Bacon & Associates |
100,263.62 |
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Miss Eileen Barrington |
18,972.80 |
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Mel Cousins |
4,839.99 |
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Grainne Healy |
4,114.72 |
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Maureen Bassett |
2,000.00 |
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Mary Jennings |
2,000.00 |
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Mr. Brian Duncan |
1,210.00 |
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John Edmondson |
1,089.00 |
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Suzanne L. Fuert |
724.07 |
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John O'Connell |
500.00 |
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Lynda Dowling |
337.50 |
