The following table sets out the 97 reports conducted by external consultants from March 2011 to date:
Report
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Name of Consultants
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Publication Date
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Cost €
|
2011
|
|
|
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Social Welfare Appeals Office – Research on Insurability Issues & Access to Legal Resources
|
Mel Cousins & Associates
|
2011
|
€7,744
|
Report on electronic access to GRO Records for genealogy research
|
John Grenham
|
Internal Management Report
|
€3,557
|
Investigation of odour/smells, Belmullet Local Office
|
Wright Environmental Services
|
Internal Management Report
|
€1,699
|
Investigation of odour/smells, Cobh Local Office
|
Employment Health Advisors Ltd
|
Internal Management Report
|
€2,023
|
Development & implementation of the National Employment & Entitlements Service
|
Accenture
|
August 2011
|
€186,563
|
Report on Pension Charges in Ireland
|
PWC
|
October 2012
|
€61,500
|
Social Inclusion Forum – Conference Report
|
Aidan Lloyd
|
August 2012
|
€1,500
|
2012
|
|
|
|
FÁS IS Applications Systems Review
|
Accenture
|
Internal Management Report
|
€44,772
|
Analysis & Measurement of Poverty & Deprivation 2012:1. Work & Poverty in Ireland: An Analysis of CSO Survey on Income & Living Conditions 2004-2010 (2012 annual report)2. Technical Paper on Poverty Indicators – [Appendix C of Report of the Review of the National Poverty Target]3. Implications of Income Pooling & Household Decision-Making for Poverty & Deprivation (2012 technical paper)
|
ESRI
|
1. December 2012 2. October 2012 3. October 2013
|
€81,230
|
Review of Irish Pensions Policy
|
OECD
|
April 2013
|
€130,000
|
Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund
|
KPMG
|
June 2012
|
€153,750
|
Evaluation of JobBridge (National Internship Scheme)
|
Indecon International Economic Consultants
|
April 2013
|
€59,555
|
Developing system architecture for the National Employment & Entitlements Service
|
Compass Point
|
Internal Management Report
|
€4,600
|
Risk assessments regarding reception areas [Arklow, Tallaght, & Kings Inn, Dublin Local Offices]
|
Nifast
|
Internal Management Report
|
€1,845
|
Air Quality Investigation, Ballymun Local Office
|
Wright Environmental Services
|
Internal Management Report
|
€3,644
|
Air Quality Investigation, Áras Mhic Dhiarmada
|
Wright Environmental Services
|
Internal Management Report
|
€3,383
|
Report on Pension Priority Order
|
Mercer
|
February 2013
|
€18,450
|
Contracted Employment Service Model
|
Centre for Economic & Social Inclusion
|
Internal Management Report
|
€140,989
|
2013
|
|
|
|
Mobile Applications Opportunity Exploration
|
Accenture
|
Internal Management Report
|
€33,388
|
Social Inclusion Forum – Conference Report
|
Aidan Lloyd
|
September 2013
|
€1,500
|
Health & Safety Review of DSP premises, Upper Gardiner St, Dublin 1
|
CPL Training Ltd, trading as Nifast Health & Safety Training
|
Internal Management Report
|
€1,100
|
Diet Supplement payment - costings update
|
Irish Nutrition & Dietetic Institute
|
September 2013
|
€4,000
|
Analysis & Measurement of Poverty & Social Exclusion (AMPSE) 2013 programme:1. Social Transfers & Poverty in Boom & Recession (for 2013 annual report) 2. Indicators of Economic Strain in the Great Recession (for 2013 technical paper)
|
ESRI
|
1. December 2013 2. April 2014
|
€67,979
|
Auto-Enrolment & Applicability to Ireland (Pensions)
|
TOR Financial Consulting Ltd.
|
Internal Management Report
|
€9,900
|
A Review of In-work Supports for the Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare
|
Mel Cousins & Associates
|
Q4 2014
|
€10,000
|
Delivery of Administrative Profiling Models to Identify those at Risk of Labour Market Disadvantage
|
ESRI
|
June 2014
|
€33,745
|
Report on Organisation Development
|
Axiom Consultants
|
Internal Management Report
|
€122,692
|
Advisory report on implementation of European Youth Guarantee in Irish circumstances
|
Organisation for Economic co-operation & Development (OECD)
|
January 2014
|
€50,000
|
Evaluation of the Youth Guarantee Pilot
|
Franklin Research Ltd.
|
January 2015
|
€20,000 (EU funded Report)
|
Evaluation Research (Back to Education Allowance)
|
ESRI
|
October 2015
|
€24,809
|
Survey of Air quality in Nutgrove Local Office
|
Wright Environmental Services
|
Internal Management Report
|
€2,900
|
Social Welfare Appeals Office – Research into Revising Decisions
|
Mel Cousins & Associates
|
Internal Management Report
|
€2,400
|
2014
|
|
|
|
Social Inclusion Forum – Conference Report
|
Aidan Lloyd
|
December 2014
|
€1,650
|
Analysis & Measurement of Poverty & Social Exclusion 2014 programme: 1. Transitions into and out of household joblessness using CSO SILC data 2. Measuring Irish joblessness: The SILC and LFS data sources
|
ESRI
|
1. September 20152. May 2015
|
€80,000
|
Security Partner Services - IT Forensics
|
Deloitte
|
Internal Management Report
|
€2,398
|
Forensic Services
|
Rits
|
Internal Management Report
|
€2,340
|
Forensic Services
|
Rits
|
Internal Management Report
|
€4,201
|
Identification & containment of malicious software
|
Deloitte
|
Internal Management Report
|
€15,699
|
Assessment for Application Lifecycle Management
|
Microsoft Ireland
|
Internal Management Report
|
€22,586
|
Ex-ante Evaluation to support the preparation of the Operational Programme for the European Fund for the Most Deprived 2014-2020
|
Mel Cousins & Associates
|
Internal report required by EU Regulation No. 223/2014
|
€16,000
|
Microfilm Condition Report
|
Martin Bradley, Archives and Records Management Consultant
|
Internal Management Report
|
€1,691
|
Report on the effectiveness & efficiency of the guidance model used during Youth Guarantee Pilot
|
NUI Maynooth
|
Internal Management Report
|
€14,145 (EU funded report)
|
Survey of air quality in Waterford Intreo office
|
Wright Environmental Services
|
Internal Management Report
|
€6,863
|
2015
|
|
|
|
Review of the EmployAbility (Supported Employment) Service
|
Indecon International Economic Consultants
|
August 2016
|
€59,280
|
Policy and practice report: Key lessons learned from the Ballymun Youth Guarantee Project
|
NUI Maynooth
|
March 2015
|
€11,135 (EU funded Report)
|
Evaluation of the Disability Activation Project
|
Indecon International Economic Consultants
|
November 2015
|
€29,520
|
Forensic Services
|
Rits
|
Internal Management Report
|
€11,480
|
Windows Tablet PC Hardening Review (Limited Scope)
|
Deloitte
|
Internal Management Report
|
€4,151
|
Social Inclusion Forum – Conference Report
|
Aidan Lloyd
|
August 2016
|
€1,650
|
Confidential Information Security Report
|
Deloitte
|
Internal Management Report
|
€7,749
|
Technical review of rent supplement under the Equal Status Acts.
|
Mel Cousins & Associates
|
Internal Management Report
|
€18,000
|
Jobseeker Customer Satisfaction Survey
|
W5 Marketing Intelligence Ltd
|
Q2 2016
|
€72,385
|
Analysis & Measurement of Poverty & Social Exclusion 2015 Programme:1. Changes in social risks by life-cycle group2. Developing a multi-dimensional quality of life indicator
|
ESRI
|
November 2016 July 2016
|
€80,000
|
Evaluation of the Suitability, Effectiveness and Relevance of the JobBridge Activation Programme
|
Indecon International Economic Consultants
|
October 2016
|
€134,895
|
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Activation Reforms
|
ESRI
|
May 2019
|
€118,315
|
External quality assessment of DSP Internal Audit
|
EisnerAmper Ireland
|
Internal Management Report
|
€5,535
|
Information Security Reports
|
Grant Thornton
|
Internal Management Report
|
€10,332
|
2016
|
|
|
|
Review of the Local Employment Services and JobClub services
|
Indecon International Economic Consultants
|
To be determined following completion of the review.
|
€87,232
|
Review of the Predictive Analytic Modelling Solutions for the Department of Social Protection.
|
The Analytics Store Ltd.
|
Internal Management Report
|
€9,471
|
Back to Education Allowance Qualitative Study
|
BMG Research
|
Q2 2017
|
€50,670
|
Jobseeker Customer Satisfaction Survey 2016 (Next annual round of Customer Satisfaction Survey originally commissioned in Aug 2015)
|
W5 Marketing Intelligence Ltd
|
Q4 2016 &Q2 2017
|
€124,550
|
Social Inclusion Forum 2016 – Conference Report
|
Aidan Lloyd
|
Q2 2017
|
€1,650
|
Measurement and Analysis of Household Income & Living Conditions 2017 Programme:1. Technical paper: examine the feasibility of conducting dynamic analysis to explore poverty and deprivation transitions over time and between different social risk groups2. Research report: examine the poverty and deprivation experience of the different risk groups, both dynamically and across a set of selected EU-countries
|
ESRI
|
Q3 2017Q4 2017
|
€94,070
|
Joint Research Programme on Retirement
|
ESRI
|
Q3 2019
|
€29,500
|
Research into development of Pensions, Longer Working Hours and Retirement Policy
|
ESRI
|
October 2017
|
€32,000
|
2017
|
|
|
|
Jobseeker Customer Satisfaction Survey 2017 (Next annual round of Customer Satisfaction Survey originally commissioned in Aug 2015)
|
W5 Marketing Intelligence Ltd
|
Q4 2017Q2 2018
|
€167,674
|
Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund as at 31 December 2015
|
KPMG
|
Q3 2017
|
€281,670
|
Compliance of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection with the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679
|
Mazars
|
Internal Management Report
|
€301,350
|
Independent Review of the amendments to the One-Parent Family payment since Jan 2012
|
Indecon
|
October 2017
|
€104,944
|
Strategic Review of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection’s website
|
Clickworks and iReach
|
Internal Management Report
|
€59,100
|
Survey of Employers (including JobPlus employers)
|
W5 Marketing Intelligence Ltd.
|
May 2018
|
€30,750
|
Social Inclusion Forum 2017 – Conference Report
|
Lisa Costello
|
Q2 2018
|
€1,750
|
Study to Explore the drivers of negative employment outcomes on participants of the Back to Education Scheme
|
BMG Research
|
Q2 2017
|
€41,228
|
2018
|
|
|
|
Economic Analysis of Auto-Enrolment Options
|
ESRI
|
Publication to be determined in line with any future Government decisions on Automatic- Enrolment
|
€25,000
|
Jobseeker Customer Satisfaction Survey 2018
|
W5 Marketing Intelligence Ltd.
|
2018
|
€121,228
|
Joint Research Programme on Gender and Pensions
|
ESRI
|
Q4 2018
|
€80,000
|
Pension Accounting Advice on Post-Employment Benefits
|
Mazars
|
Internal Management Report
|
€4,428
|
Social Inclusion Forum 2018 – Conference Report
|
Peigín Doyle
|
Q2 2019
|
€1,443
|
Health and Safety Audit of the Department’s Print and Stationery Stores
|
Quadra Consulting
|
Internal Management Report
|
€1,722
|
2019
|
|
|
|
An Initial Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Intreo Activation Reforms
|
ESRI
|
Q1 2019
|
€82,820
|
Measurement and Analysis of Household Income & Living Conditions 2017 Programme1. Technical Paper on Social Inclusion and Access to Care Services in Ireland
2. Research Paper: Access to Childcare and Home Care Services across Europe
|
ESRI
|
February 2019 September 2019
|
€50,953 €15,678
|
Research on Costs of Disability in Ireland
|
Indecon
|
Q1 2020 (expected)
|
€192,987
|
Review of National Action Plan for Social Inclusion
|
Indecon
|
Yet to be published
|
€60,549
|
Static Electricity Survey of Kennedy House, Navan
|
Chris Mc Gee Group
|
Internal Management Report
|
€2,460
|
Social Inclusion Forum 2019 – Conference Report
|
Elizabeth Costello
|
Q2 2020 (expected)
|
€2,600
|
Review of Information Systems Division (ISD) Computer Operations
|
Philip O’Reilly
|
Internal Management Report
|
€24,600
|
Shift Roster Design Options (for Information Services Division Computer Operations)
|
Working Time Solutions
|
Internal Management Report
|
€23,124
|
Provision of expertconsultancy support to the Department on the deployment of online services andthe development of a strategic implementation plan for the implementation ofDigital Transformation and the Front Office/Back Office (FO/BO) service model.
|
Deloitte
|
Three Internal Management Reports
|
€288,496.50
|