Taoiseach’s Public Service Excellence Awards 2012

Taoiseach’s Public Service Excellence Awards 2012

The Taoiseach’s Public Service Excellence Awards are organised as part of the Government’s programme of Public Service reform.  

The Awards are held every two years to recognise and reward examples of excellence in the delivery of public services and/or administration, by public servants. The purpose of the Awards is to seek out improvements and innovative activities from the public sector.

The closing date for the applications for 2012 was Friday, 11th November, 2011.  Approximately 190 applications were received from public service organisations.

Top 20 Award Winners 2012

Congratulations to the 20 project winners who are as follows (in no particular order):-

Office of the Revenue Commissioners PAYE Real-Time Risk:  January 2011 – July 2011
Central Statistics Office Earnings, Hours & Employment Costs Survey – Automatic Data Extraction
ITSligo Online Distance Learning
16 Higher Education Institutions Equity of Access to Higher Education
D/Education & Skills On-line Student Grant Application Facility
HSE Clinical Strategy and Programmes Directorate National Early Warning Score & associated (COMPASS) Education Programme
HSE South Acute Stroke Unit,BantryGeneralHospital
BeaumontHospital Information When & Where Needed Safe & Effective Patient Care
HSE West Dementia Care – theEdenAlternative
Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service Introducing the State’s first every Citizenship Ceremonies and tackling the backlog of naturalisation applications
Forensic Science Laboratory From Complaints to Compliments
Mountjoy Prison The Development of High Support Unit (HSU) within Mountjoy Prison
DublinCity Council Multiple Operator Real Time Passenger Information System
Louth Co. Council “Sharing the Journey”LouthAgeFriendlyCountyInitiative
Fingal Co. Council Fingal Open Data
South Dublin Co. Council Fix Your Street
National Roads Authority NRA Barrier-Free Tolling Project on M50
Ordnance SurveyIreland Osi MapGenie
Defence Forces IMERC (Irish Maritime and  Energy Resource Cluster)
National Library ofIreland National Library Social Media Programme

The 20 award winners will present their projects in DublinCastle on 21st June to coincide with a presentation of the Awards by the Taoiseach.

A programme for the day will follow shortly.

Previous Awards

A summary of the successful projects have been compiled into the following brochures and available on the link below:

 

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