Public Consultation Process

Tuesday, 19 June 2018

Questions (172)

Shane Cassells

Question:

172. Deputy Shane Cassells asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of public consultations held by his Department or by a State agency under the remit of his Department; the number of replies received per consultation; and the cost of each consultation in each of the years 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [26466/18]

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Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform

Details of all public consultations held by my Department, and the bodies under the aegis of my Department, are outlined in the following table.

Department Of Public Expenditure and Reform

Year	Title of Public Consultation:	Responses	Cost
2011	Regulation of Lobbying Bill	61	€3,719.83
	Comprehensive Review of Expenditure	1,000+	Nil
2012	None	N/A	N/A
2013	Review of Public Works Contracts	12	Nil
2014	Comprehensive Review of Expenditure	62	Nil
	Transposition of the EU Public Procurement Directives	43	€3,598.42
	Open Government Partnership: Consultation with Civil Society Representatives and Citizens on Ireland's Participation in the Open Government Partnership	62	€25,735.25
	Consultation process on the development of a foundation document for an Open Data Strategy in 2014	9	Nil
	Statute Law Revision Bill	42	Nil
	Data Sharing and Governance policy paper	26	Nil
	Civil Service Accountability Consultation Process	39	€6,714.75
2015	Government Contracts Committee on Construction Information Sessions on the forthcoming amendments to the Public Works Contracts (held in 5 locations nationwide).	N/A – open forum for Q&As	€10,200
	Draft Consultation Principles / Guidance for Public Consultation	50 submissions	Nil
	Commissioning for Better Outcomes	64 submissions	€6,855.15
	Freedom of Information Publication Scheme	7	Nil
	Guidance for Public Bodies on the Protected Disclosures Act 2014	4	Nil
	Draft Corporate Governance Standards for central Government Departments	31	€5,036.96
	Statute Law Revision Bill	0	Nil
	Consultation on Open Data Licencing	9	Nil
2016	Open Government Partnership Ireland’s Open Government Partnership National Action Plan 2014-2016: End-term Self-Assessment Report Open Government Partnership Ireland: Have Your Say - 2016-2018 Ireland's Draft National Action Plan 2016-2018 Open Government Partnership National Action Plan 2016-2018: Implementation Review	3 submissions 119 submissions 17 submissions 4 submissions	€42,922
	First Review of the Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015	31	€3,548.14
2017	Mid-Term Review of the Capital Plan - Consultative Forum	166 submissions	€583.74
	Employer-Exchequer Investment Mechanism to fund Higher & Further Education (Joint DPER/DES Consultation and Meeting)	28 submissions	€220 (DPER cost)
	Adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM) on public works projects	16	Nil
	Our Public Service 2020	22	€6,179
	Draft national Open Data Strategy 2017-2022	6	Nil
2018	Dialogue on Effective Prevention and Early Intervention Approaches in Human Services*	7 March 2018 49 participants 30 May 2018 30 participants	€577.13 €218.49
	Public Consultation on the European Directive 2014/55/EU on electronic invoicing in public procurement	0	€2,430.81

Public Appointments Service

YEAR	Title of Public Consultation:	Responses:	Cost:
2011	None	N/A	N/A
2012	None	N/A	N/A
2013	Irish Language Scheme	7	€902.24
2014	None	N/A	N/A
2015	Brand Awareness Survey	1007	€23,247
2016	Irish Language Scheme	1	€430.50
2017	None	N/A	N/A
2018	None	N/A	N/A

Office of Public Works

Please note that the Office of Public Works will respond directly to the Deputy.

The deferred reply under Standing Order 42A was forwarded to the Deputy.