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Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (4 Jul 2012)

Bernard Durkan: Question 114: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the degree to which he has identified the Government Departments or relevant public bodies which have achieved the most in terms of savings or cost cutting in each of the past three years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32802/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (4 Jul 2012)

Bernard Durkan: Question 115: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has identified any particular or specific areas of public expenditure in which the target set over the past three years to date has not been met; the action he proposes to address such issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32803/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (4 Jul 2012)

Bernard Durkan: Question 116: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the degree, if any, to which he has identified Government Departments or public bodies under their control that have achieved the least in terms of cost cutting or savings in each of the past three years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32804/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (4 Jul 2012)

Bernard Durkan: Question 117: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Government Departments or relevant public bodies that have achieved the most in terms of reform, cost cutting or savings in the past 12 months; if such bodies will receive any particular recognition for their efforts to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32805/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (4 Jul 2012)

Bernard Durkan: Question 118: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he expects to be in a position to meet the targets set by him in terms of savings and reform in the course of the next four years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32806/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (4 Jul 2012)

Bernard Durkan: Question 119: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has identified areas of public expenditure or reform in respect of which a greater effort is needed to achieve targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32807/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (4 Jul 2012)

Bernard Durkan: Question 120: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total in terms of savings and cost cutting achieved by each Government Department in the course of the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32808/12]

Written Answers — Public Sector Staff: Public Sector Staff (4 Jul 2012)

Bernard Durkan: Question 121: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total number of jobs lost in the public services due to savings imposed in the wake of the Memorandum of Understanding and through natural wastage in each of the past two years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32809/12]

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2012)

Bernard Durkan: We were in a boom at that time.

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2012)

Bernard Durkan: Deputy O'Dea and his colleagues did not leave soon enough.

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2012)

Bernard Durkan: Why does Deputy O'Dea not stand up and apologise?

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2012)

Bernard Durkan: Has it recovered yet?

Order of Business (5 Jul 2012)

Bernard Durkan: Has progress been made in bringing before the House the collective investment schemes (consolidation) Bill, having particular regard to the need to tighten legislation in that area? What about the criminal law (human trafficking) (amendment) Bill which has been promised and seems to have achieved a higher prominence than heretofore?

Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Second Stage (5 Jul 2012)

Bernard Durkan: If there is one issue with which every Member of the House should be familiar, it is mortgage arrears and insolvency. Every Deputy has had occasion, especially in the past four or five years, to advise people with mortgage debt who are unable to make repayments. In some cases, the advice we gave was not heeded by the lending institutions or members of the borrowing public. Some years ago, a...

Written Answers — General Government Debt: General Government Debt (5 Jul 2012)

Bernard Durkan: Question 59: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he expects recent discussions at EU level to impact in a positive way on this country's economic future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32870/12]

Written Answers — Credit Availability: Credit Availability (5 Jul 2012)

Bernard Durkan: Question 20: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he has achieved an understanding with the lending institutions here with particular reference to the need to ensure the availability of adequate working capital for existing small and medium enterprises with the emphasis on the retention of employment and the generation of economic activity resulting in growth; the extent to...

Written Answers — Credit Availability: Credit Availability (5 Jul 2012)

Bernard Durkan: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions he has had with the lending sector whether it is expected to achieve an improvement in the extent to which small and medium sized business can access sufficient credit to meet their working capital needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32940/12]

Written Answers — Credit Availability: Credit Availability (5 Jul 2012)

Bernard Durkan: Question 69: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has had any discussions with banking interests that have primarily previously provided overdraft and working capital facilities to the hotel and tourism sectors; if any particular strategy has been identified whereby banks such as Bank of Scotland or others now withdrawing from the Irish market can be replaced by banking institutions capable...

Written Answers — Credit Availability: Credit Availability (5 Jul 2012)

Bernard Durkan: Question 70: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent he has received communication from the farming and business sectors indicating a reluctance by banks to facilitate by way of overdraft the ongoing and normal requirements and thereby contributing to economic recovery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32942/12]

Written Answers — Fiscal Policy: Fiscal Policy (5 Jul 2012)

Bernard Durkan: Question 57: To ask the Minister for Finance if following negotiations between EU Governments he expects to be in a position to review the economic outlook in terms of the possible restructuring of this country's borrowings or debt. [32868/12]