David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There are eight social disadvantage measures funded from the dormant accounts. We come to the appropriations-in-aid and the largest individual item in subhead B relates to receipts from pension related deductions and public service remuneration.

The next item is the Courts Service. Vote 22, subhead A1 is salaries, wages and allowances, in which there is a slight reduction, salaries, wages, allowances to the court staff, extra attendance and employers social welfare contributions. We note there is a staff of 927 full-time equivalents at the end of the year in the Courts Service.

There is no change in travel and subsistence, however there is a slight change in the Estimate for incidental expenses, training, juries, legal services. There is no change in post and communication or office machinery and external IT services. There is a slight reduction in the Estimate for office premises expenses. Whereas there is no change in the Estimate for consultancy and services value for money policy reviews there is a slight increase in subhead A3, courthouse capital works.