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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget Targets (23 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the degree to which he has identified the Departments and or bodies under their aegis throughout the public sector that have so far contributed most towards meeting the budgetary targets set in the Memorandum of Understanding; if cognisance is likely to be taken of their efforts in this regard in current and future years; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget Targets (23 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which the targets in respect of public expenditure reform and or the elimination of waste and duplication throughout the public service have been achieved in each of the past three years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3299/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget Targets (23 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which reforms throughout the public service have contributed to cost reductions in each of the past two years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3300/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget Targets (23 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the degree to which pay cuts, reform and the elimination of waste have each contributed to cost-cutting required in accordance with necessary economies arising from the economic situation inherited from his predecessors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3301/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget Targets (23 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied that the various reforms, savings and cost-cutting undertaken to date are in accord with the expectations and approval of the Troika; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3302/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget Targets (23 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the factors featuring most prominently as being obstacles in his efforts to achieve savings throughout various Government Departments and their respective subordinate bodies or agencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3305/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Reform Implementation (23 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which pay and conditions in the public sector here have reformed in line with our EU, Eurozone and non-Eurozone partner; the extent to which cost of living comparisons have been made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3297/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Numbers (23 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which the numbers employed throughout the public sector in respect of each Government Department and bodies under their aegis have been reduced in each year to date since the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3298/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Numbers (23 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied that staff reductions brought about by compliance with the Memorandum of Understanding signed by his predecessors with particular reference to sensitive frontline public services are not likely to damage the integrity and efficacy of such services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3303/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Indemnity (23 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he has identified various forms of insurance cover affecting the State and or its institutions as a means of achieving savings to the Exchequer; the extent to which group insurance policies can be utilised for this purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3304/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Reform Implementation (23 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the degree to which he can, in the context of budgetary curtailments in the current year, rely on revised working hours as a possible alternative to salary or wage cuts in view of the fact that the public already have considerable commitments by way of financial outgoings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3057/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals (23 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 502 of the 16 of January 2013, the applicant failed to give a true and accurate account of their circumstances in respect of their application for jobseeker's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3150/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Presidency: Discussion with Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (23 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: I have to be in the Dáil to chair the House at 6 p.m.

Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: Deputy Higgins is not a Leader.

Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: That is right.

Order of Business (24 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: Yes.

Order of Business (24 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: Does the Deputy feel better now?

Order of Business (24 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: What is the state of the Bill to provide for exchange of criminal records and information with other EU member states? Have the heads been discussed? I refer to the criminal records information systems Bill. When is that likely to come before the House? There is also a Bill to strengthen and streamline the function of certain company law enforcement agencies and make other necessary...

Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Rates (24 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: We will not go there.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (24 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which he and his Department expects to rely on innovation and technology to contribute to job creation and retention now and in the future with particular reference to the need to utilise the entire spectrum of technology and innovation in the challenge of national economic recovery in both the manufacturing and service...