Consultancy Contracts.

Wednesday, 12 October 2005

Ceisteanna (249)

Joan Burton

Ceist:

321 Ms Burton asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the consultancy contracts awarded to Deloitte & Touche since 1 July 1997; the cost of each; and the purpose of same. [28407/05]

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Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Mr. Martin)

I understand that Deputy Burton has indicated that she wishes to have information on contracts that have a total value of €50,000 or more. The information requested by the Deputy in so far as my Department is concerned is as follows:

Year	Purpose of Consultancy	Cost
		€
1998	Review of redundancy and insolvency IT system	110,46
1998	Review of the community employment programme	69,137
1999	Development of an IT case tracking system for the Registry of Friendly Societies	152,985
1999	Various IT systems upgrades and project developments for the Companies Registration Office	559,900
2000	Organisational review of the structure, operations, resource requirements, business processes and IT systems in the Competition Authority and provision of recommendations on streamlining and improvements	78,356
2000	Systems development for the CRO's registration services system	380,000
2001	Business analysis and reform of my Department's financial management function	155,680
2001	Upgrade of the redundancy, insolvency and recoveries, RIR, system due to euro conversion and implementation of other system changes	202,944
2001	Development of a case management system for the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement	98,537
2001	Various IT systems upgrades and project developments for the Companies Registration Office	559,900
2001	Systems development for the CRO's registration services system	957,421
2004	Development of IT systems for Personal Injuries Assessment Board	136,566
2004	Development of interface between RIRsystem to Oracle Financials financial management system	83,715
2004	Development of interface between RIRsystem to new online redundancy payments system	60,785

I have included in this list a small number of contracts that would normally be classified as IT contracts and not consultancy contracts.

In addition to the foregoing, Deloitte & Touche had been engaged by my Department to carry out specific audit work. Details of those particular contracts have not been included in this reply although they are, of course, available should the Deputy require them.