Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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Question 302: To ask the Minister for Arts; Heritage and the Gaeltacht the value per Government agency of contracts issued outsourcing IT services for 2010 and 2011; of those contracts issued, the number of sub-contracts and sub-sub-contracts issued as a condition of the original contract issued and if the information will be broken down on a per contract basis per government agency. [18170/11]

Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North-West Limerick, Fine Gael)
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Whilst my Department provides funding to the agencies within its remit, the Board of each agency is responsible for all operational matters relating to the agency, including IT services, and I do not have a statutory function in respect of such day-to-day operational matters.

With regard to my Department itself, there are no contracts issued at present for the outsourcing of IT services. However, in 2010, as part of the periodic procurement of external IT support, my Department assessed the suitability of a fully outsourced IT service approach. At the time, it was decided that, primarily due to operational requirements, such an approach was not the most appropriate or cost-effective.

Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 303: To ask the Minister for Arts; Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide the following information regarding each of the State agencies (details supplied), namely, the total number of staff and their respective job titles; the total number of board members and their respective remuneration packages; the total annual wage bill for each agency and the total annual amount of central funding provided to each agency. [18184/11]

Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North-West Limerick, Fine Gael)
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The Deputy will appreciate that the extensive amount of information sought by her in regard to a wide range of bodies would require a significant amount of work on the part of Departmental officials and would be difficult to justify, particularly given the amount of information that is already provided in the Annual Reports of the relevant bodies, which are available in the Oireachtas Library.

If, however, the Deputy has a particular query in relation to a specific body coming within the ambit of my Department, I will, of course, be happy to arrange for the information in question to be provided to the Deputy.