For the Deputy's information, the following list of reports for the years in question (1997-2000) was compiled in response to previous parliamentary questions tabled some years ago. Of the fifty two reports commissioned during this timeframe, thirty four were implemented in full, a further 7 were partially implemented and some others were noted as project specific. Accordingly it would be reasonable to assume that the advice and recommendations provided by the reports assisted the Department in the development of policies and procedures for the benefit of the Department and the wider education sector.
Note: The totals for 1997-2000 inclusive are given in Irish Punts £
Year 1997
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Purpose
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Cost
|
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Commission on Points System
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Examination of Points System
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£108,709.00
|
|
Coopers & Lybrand
|
Review of Financial Guidelines, Accounting & Auditing Practices in
|
£22,796.00
|
|
Primary & Voluntary Secondary Schools
|
|
|
Dermot Rochford
|
Review of functions and administrative staffing/organisational structures in amalgamating vocational education committees
|
£10,229.00
|
|
Dr. Maurice Bric
|
Humanities and Social Sciences Research: A Case for a Research Council
|
£4,500.00
|
|
Hay Management
|
Preparation of Competency Model for Director, National Centre for Technology in Education
|
£1,815.00
|
|
The Learning Organisation
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Schools IT 2000 Project
|
£14,228.00
|
|
West Dublin Education Centre
|
Report on the future development of Primary Education in Mallow
|
£2,929.00
|
|
Total
|
£165,206.00
|
Year 1998
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Purpose
|
Cost
|
|
Ad-hoc Advisory Group
|
Report on Task Force on the Supply of Technicians
|
£254,640.00
|
|
ARCLINE
|
Archival Work — EDP & An Gum
|
£26,620.00
|
|
CIRCA Group
|
Implementation of Public Services Mngt Act, 1997
|
£20,631.00
|
|
Dermot Rochford
|
KVEC Amalgamation
|
£9,190.00
|
|
Dr. Seamus O hUallachain
|
Expenditure Review of Instituid Teangeolaiochta Eireann
|
£2,500.00
|
|
Frank Pignatelli
|
Schools Points Based System of Priority
|
£23,782.60
|
|
NUI — Maynooth
|
Adult Education — Green Paper
|
£34,000.00
|
|
Price Waterhouse
|
Value for Money Assignment
|
£6,504.00
|
|
Prospectus
|
Business Planning Process
|
£6,045.00
|
|
Sean Nolan
|
Irish Academy for the Performing Arts
|
£2,500.00
|
|
WRC Social & Economic Consultants
|
Women’s Education Initiative
|
£20,100.00
|
|
Total
|
£406,512.60
|
Year 1999
|
Purpose
|
Cost
|
|
ARCLINE
|
Archival Records — EDP & An Gum
|
£70,210.00
|
|
Deloitte & Touche
|
Organisational Review of the Department
|
£25,477.00
|
|
Economics Dept -UCD
|
To assess both quantitatively and qualitatively the social and economic contribution of the proposals contained in the Department of Education & Science’s initial outline of priority needs for the National Development Plan and Community Support Framework for the period 2000 — 2006
|
£4,750.00
|
|
Ernst & Young
|
Review of Structures in the Building Unit
|
£10,605.00
|
|
Prospectus
|
Business Planning — Review of Special Education Unit
|
£69,824.00
|
|
WRC Social & Economic Consultants
|
Review of VTOS
|
£17,480.00
|
|
WRC Social & Economic Consultants
|
Women’s Education Initiative
|
£20,100.00
|
|
Total
|
£218,446.00
|
Year 2000
|
Purpose
|
Cost
|
|
C.Sheffield
|
Employee Assistance Service Review
|
£4,090.00
|
|
CRC, Trinity College
|
Evaluation of Early School Leavers Initiative
|
£52,810.89
|
|
CRC, Trinity College
|
Preparation of National Youth Work Development Plan
|
£54,300.00
|
|
Crowleys — DFK
|
ESF verification report
|
£70,654.81
|
|
Deloitte & Touche
|
Organisational review
|
£35,214.00
|
|
Dermot Rochford
|
Staffing resource and organisational needs of NQAI, HETAC and FETAC
|
£14,336.08
|
|
Dermot Rochford
|
Staffing needs of admin office in Tourism College, Killybegs
|
£4,089.90
|
|
Eileen Costello
|
Consultancy — Inventory System
|
£1,625.00
|
|
ERC, St. Pat’s Drumcondra
|
Research on 8 — 15 Early School Leaver Initiative
|
£111,117.00
|
|
Ernst & Young
|
Review of Work in the Building Unit DES
|
£15,137.00
|
|
Eustace Patterson Ltd
|
Review of Gaisce
|
£15,157.00
|
|
Farrell Grant Sparks
|
Report on Tralee IT under Section 20 of RTC Act 1992
|
£32,017.18
|
|
Farrell Grant Sparks/ A & L Goodbody
|
Pilot PPP Education Projects (Five PPP Schools and Cork School of Music)
|
£103,665.99
|
|
Lesley Dee
|
Orchard Cope Foundation
|
£5,075.00
|
|
Noel Lindsay
|
Saving & loan fund for adult & continuing education
|
£2,000.00
|
|
NUI — Maynooth
|
Adult Education — Green & White Papers
|
£35,000.00
|
|
Oliver Freaney & Co
|
3rd Level Finance accountancy
|
£19,950.00
|
|
Philip Lee Solicitors
|
Consultancy -Vet School
|
£2,934.25
|
|
Prospectus
|
Business Planning and Partnership in DES
|
£17,949.00
|
|
Prospectus
|
Review of Special Education
|
£26,645.00
|
|
Prospectus
|
Staff survey on internal communications
|
£23,262.00
|
|
Sean Cromien
|
Review of Department of Education operations & structures
|
£16,500.00
|
|
Todd Architects
|
Masterplan — Portlaoise
|
£59,508.00
|
|
Tony Bromwell
|
Review of Safety Procedures in Lisnagry, Co.Limerick
|
£3,534.00
|
|
WRC Social & Economic Consultants
|
Review of VTOS
|
£11,654.00
|
|
WRC Social & Economic Consultants
|
Women’s Education Initiative
|
£20,100.00
|
|
WRC Social & Economic Consultants
|
Improving Effectiveness of VTOS
|
£29,140.00
|
|
Total
|
£787,466.10
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