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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Yield (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will set out in tabular form, the gross receipts from employee and employer PRSI for each year from 2007 to 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49276/12]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Expenditure (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the gross and net additional expenditure savings that his Department is seeking to achieve in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49236/12]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Departmental Expenditure (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the gross and net additional expenditure savings that his Department is seeking to achieve in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49238/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Non-Principal Private Residence Charge (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the revenue that would be raised from increasing the non principal private residence tax to €300 [49285/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the gross and net additional expenditure savings that his Department is seeking to achieve in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49241/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Expenditure (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the gross and net additional expenditure savings that his Department is seeking to achieve in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49245/12]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Defence the gross and net additional expenditure savings that his Department is seeking to achieve in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49239/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Expenditure (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the gross and net additional expenditure savings that his Department is seeking to achieve in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49235/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children currently availing of the free childcare place for four year olds; the cost of the scheme; the approximate cost of extending it to entitle parents to two years of free childcare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49253/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the gross and net additional expenditure savings that her Department is seeking to achieve in 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49237/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Social Workers Register (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Health if he will take steps to ensure that the new registration fee for social care professionals which will be €295 is reduced and brought into line with the fees required for similarly paid qualified professionals like nurses €88 and teachers €65 and ensure that the Health and Social Care Professional Council, CORU, links its fees to those...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Health the gross and net additional expenditure savings that his Department is seeking to achieve in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49244/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Health the approximate cost of reducing the monthly threshold for the drug payment scheme from €132 a month to €120 a month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49252/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Expenditure (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the gross and net additional expenditure savings that his Department is seeking to achieve in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49248/12]

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: I thank our guests for attending. Are there many medical staff who are currently operating in administrative or managerial roles and who are still in receipt of allowances meant for front-line staff? Do many medical staff transfer into managerial or administrative positions?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: I accept that probably happens more in the area of, for example, local government than in the health service.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: That is fine. The general picture emerging from these proceedings is that there are approximately 67,000 direct HSE staff, of whom 41,000 - in the region of two thirds - are in receipt of allowances. Our guests indicated that there are of the order of 36,000 people operating in the voluntary sector. One could assume, therefore, that approximately 24,000 of the latter are in receipt of some...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: So there should not be any major surprises.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: I am not arguing with the definition of allowances which has been provided by our guests because it is probably clearer than those which have been supplied by various Departments, etc. Perhaps Mr. Barry O'Brien's point to the effect that the allowances paid by the HSE have been adjudicated on by the Labour Court is germane because the allowances paid to gardaí and members of the Defence...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: The HSE's terminology would be more specific because it has been before the Labour Court in respect of this matter. That is an important distinction. Are all the allowances under consideration today taxable and pensionable?