2018 ANNUAL REPORT IPA | ANNUAL REPORT 2018 PRESIDENT Ms Geraldine Tallon Former Secretary General Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government VICE-PRESIDENTS Martin Fraser Robert Watt BOARD Martin O’Halloran (Chair) Connie Kelleher (Retired September 2018) Marian O’Sullivan (Director General) Paul Lemass MEMBERSHIP Elizabeth Adams (Retired September 2018) Fergal Lynch Raymond Dolan Stephen Mulvany Lucy Fallon-Byrne Pat Naughton Pat Gallagher Siobhan O’Halloran Carolyn Gormley BOARD SUBCOMMITTEES FINANCE AND Martin O’Halloran (Chair) Stephen Mulvany Carolyn Gormley Marian O’Sullivan STRATEGY Fergal Lynch COMMITTEE ADMINISTRATION Martin O’Halloran (Chair) Raymond Dolan Elizabeth Adams (Retired September 2018) Pat Gallagher COMMITTEE AUDIT AND Raymond Dolan (Chair) Fergal Lynch Elizabeth Adams (Retired September 2018) Pat Naughton RISK COMMITTEE Paul Lemass Siobhan O’Halloran IPA COMMITTEES EDUCATION Frank Murray (Chair) (Passed away 2018) Michael Mulreany Moling Ryan (Chair) (Appointed 2018) Seamus Neely COMMITTEE Dermot Clynes Margaret Nugent Tony Donohoe Denis O’Brien Kevin Foley Doncha F. O’Sullivan Aidan Horan (Appointed February 2018) Rory McCorley Marian O’Sullivan Ian McKenna John Twomey (Retired February 2018) Oonagh McPhillips (Retired February 2018) BOOK Maurice Manning (Chair) Philip Hamell Richard Boyle Paul Haran PUBLISHING Dónal de Buitléir Blathna Ruane COMMITTEE Tom Fennell IPA | ANNUAL REPORT 2018 INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 57- 61 Lansdowne Road, Dublin D04 TC62 T + 353 1 240 3600 F + 353 1 668 9135 [email protected] www.ipa.ie 3 | IPA | ANNUAL REPORT 2018 CONTENTS REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR GENERAL & THE CHAIR OF THE BOARD 05 EDUCATION 08 RESEARCH 10 TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT 13 INTERNATIONAL SERVICES 16 LIBRARY & INFORMATION SERVICES 18 PUBLISHING 20 AWARDS & PRIZEWINNERS 23 OUTREACH 28 FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE 30 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 32 INSTITUTE SENIOR MANAGEMENT 66 IPA | ANNUAL REPORT 2018 01 REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR GENERAL & THE CHAIR OF THE BOARD IPA | ANNUAL REPORT 2018 REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR GENERAL & THE CHAIR OF THE BOARD year in existence. It also provides an also introduced a series of Insight Briefs. opportunity to acknowledge the high levels Five Insight Briefs were produced in 2018, of professionalism, commitment and hard covering aspects of public management work of an excellent team of people and the practice. The aim of this series is to provide IPA Chair and Board. It is important that we short, one-to-two-page briefings for busy celebrate and acknowledge what overall has managers on topics of interest with regard been a successful year. to public management and policy. The briefs are available at https://www.ipa.ie/research- Between 2001 and 2011 the IPA was a papers/insight-briefs.4014.html recognised college of the NUI. Between 2011 and 2018 the IPA was a recognised Under the ‘State of the Public Service’ series, college of UCD. In 2018 the IPA resumed two reports were published in 2018: as a recognised college of the NUI. Students • by who enrolled on education programmes A Case Study of the EPA–RPII Merger Joanna O’Riordan, available for download from September 2018 are eligible to at receive NUI-accredited qualifications. https://www.ipa.ie/_fileUpload/Documents/ Martin O’Halloran EPA_RESEARCHEPORT_2018.pdf Chair The conferring ceremony for accredited programmes took place on 14 December • Public Sector Trends 2018 by Richard 2018 when 980 graduates were conferred. Boyle, available for download at An additional 616 students were presented https://www.ipa.ie/_fileUpload/Documents/ with UCD certificates. In 2018 the Institute PUBLICSECTORTRENDS2018.pdf also continued to provide programmes to international students. Over sixty Under the ‘Local Government’ series, two students from US colleges participated reports were completed and published: in parliamentary internship programmes. • Local Government as Local Service Coordinator: Twenty students from the Seychelles Case Study of Ireland’s Age Friendly Cities and completed the MA in Leadership and Counties Programme by Laura Shannon, Strategy, and over one hundred students available for download at https://www.ipa. from Nanchang University studied on the ie/_fileUpload/Documents/LOCALGOV_ Diploma in Business Studies programme. no14.pdf Our undergraduate and postgraduate • Local Economic Development: An Overview programmes aim to provide specialist of the Economic Development Role of Local skills and knowledge, a broadly based Authorities in Selected Jurisdictions by Laura understanding of public policy, analytical Shannon, available for download at Dr Marian O’Sullivan skills and the opportunity for progression https://www.ipa.ie/_fileUpload/Documents/ Director General from level 6 awards right up to level 10 on LocalEconomicDev_2018.pdf the National Framework of Qualifications. Our programmes were offered through In line with the Institute’s publishing three delivery methods: lectures at the IPA, strategy, overseen by the Book Publishing lectures at regional centres and distance Committee, a number of texts were either education/blended learning. Overall, over completed or approved for publication. 1,340 students were enrolled on our These include: Established in November 1957, the Institute undergraduate programmes in 2018. • of Public Administration is proud of its Envoy Extraordinary: Professor Smiddy of Cork The Institute’s Master of Arts programmes by Eda Sagarra; distinct mission and role in the provision of have a common first year, which leads to an a unique mix of education, training, research, award of Postgraduate Diploma in Public • No Artificial Limits: Ireland’s Regional Technical publishing, consultancy and other services Management. In year two, students progress Colleges by Richard Thorn; for the wider public sector both in Ireland to a choice of seven specialist areas. In • by Eoin Carolan (Ed.); and abroad. This cross-sectoral approach 2018 the total number of students enrolled Judicial Power in Ireland ensures that the IPA applies a unique, whole- on Master of Arts programmes was 185. • Local Government in the Republic of Ireland by of-government perspective to everything The Doctorate in Governance programme Mark Callanan; that it does. Ensuring that our public commenced in 2003 and in 2018 thirty-five services operate consistently to the highest students were enrolled on the doctorate • Irish Parliamentarians: Deputies and Senators standards is an ongoing challenge and often programme. 1918–2018 by Anthony White. the subject of much debate. Over the years, In the Training Division, the Institute provides the IPA has sought to contribute to, and The IPA has a small, full-time, dedicated team of staff undertaking applied research a broad range of customised learning and inform and debate on, the performance of development interventions, public courses our public service. for government departments and other public sector bodies. The year 2018 saw and specialist advisory services in the areas The Annual Report allows time for reflection the continuation of the ‘State of the Public of public sector leadership and management, on what the IPA has achieved in the last Service’ research series and the ‘Local human resource management, governance, twelve months, as we celebrated its sixtieth Government’ research series. The Institute accounting, financial management, auditing, | 6 IPA | ANNUAL REPORT 2018 Pictured (l-r) at the launch of Judicial Power in Ireland were Dr Michael Mulreany, Assistant Director General & Registrar, IPA; Eoin Carolan, editor of Judicial Power in Ireland; guest of honour Hon Mr Justice Frank Noreen Fahy, FCCA, Senior Governance & Finance Specialist, IPA, speaking at an IPA Governance Forum event, Clarke, Chief Justice; and Dr Richard Boyle, Head of ‘Assurance Frameworks and Expectations – Sources of Assurance for Boards and Senior Executives’. Research, Publishing & Corporate Relations, IPA. project and programme management, faced by forum members, and a total of Following on from its work in 2017 on the and information technology, including fifteen events were hosted at the Institute. EuropeAid project ‘Technical Assistance on accredited programmes which lead to formal The calendar of events covered many Strengthening National Civil Service Training membership of professional bodies. During contemporary issues in governance, and key Institutions in Myanmar’, the IPA hosted a 2018 the Institute worked collaboratively themes included: Strategic Performance senior delegation of officials from the Union with many government departments, local Reporting; Governance Culture, Behaviour Civil Service Board to Ireland in May 2018. authorities, state agencies, educational and Ethics; Risk Management and Risk The strategic relationship between the bodies and the not-for-profit sector to Appetite; Audit Committees and Rising IPA and the Office of the Civil Service design and deliver customised programmes, Expectations; Strategy Implementation; Commission (OCSC) of the Royal Kingdom including Grade Development for Executive Assurance Frameworks and Accountability of Thailand continued to deepen and grow Officer, Higher Executive Officer and Assistant Arrangements; Roles and Responsibilities during 2018. In April IPA senior management Principal Officer Grades in the Civil Service; of Board Members; Board Evaluations and met with a senior delegation from OCSC, Leadership and Management Development; Enhancing Board Effectiveness; Reputation led by Deputy Prime Minister Mr Wissanu Governance;