Written answers

Tuesday, 15 July 2014

Department of An Taoiseach

Departmental Staff Training

Photo of Mary Lou McDonaldMary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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112. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of all third level courses, training programmes and courses and accompanying costs for the 2013/2014 academic year 1 September 2013 to the end of June 2014 provided for employees of his Department. [30703/14]

Photo of Mary Lou McDonaldMary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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115. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the annual saving to the Exchequer of a 5%, 7%, 10%, 12%, 15%, 17% and 20% reduction in training and development for his Department. [30706/14]

Photo of Enda KennyEnda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 112 and 115 together.

The Information requested by the Deputy is contained in a number of tables.

Courses and ProgrammeCosts €Number of People
Post Graduate 25,5584
Graduate 19,7607
Certificates/Diplomas2,1402
Language Training2,8405
Leadership Development Programme

(MAC, POs, APs)
26,25045
Management Development***1,1306
Managing, Motivating and Coaching Staff8253
Retirement PlanningNo Charge3
Procurement and Oracle *No Charge19
Lotus Notes WSPMS *No Charge21
Social Policy and Economic Reform Workshop*No Charge10
Programme for Government Office Workshop*No Charge14
The PQ Process*No Charge17
Manual Handling**No Charge20
First Aid Refresher**No Charge3
IT Skills1,99019
Management Development 4951
Public Speaking2951
SMART Reading4,50030
Freedom of Information for Decision Makers x 2 2,40037
Total88,183267

*Training Workshops Facilitated by DOT members of staff with expertise in these areas.

** This training was provided free of charge by the OPW.

*** This training programme was provided in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture, Marine and Food and costs were shared between the two Departments

A reduction in the 2013/14 academic year training and development expenditure of my Department would be as follows:

2013/14 SpendLess 5%Less 7%Less 10%Less 12%Less 15%Less 17%Less 20%
88,18383,77482,01079,36477,60174,95573,19270,546
Saving4,4096,1738,81910,58213,22814,99117,637

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