Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which economies achieved by his Department in each of the past three years to date have been achieved by way of direct cuts in expenditure, savings or other means; if any particular evaluation has been done to ascertain the most cost-efficient and effective strategies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51903/12]

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