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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Expenditure Reviews (27 Feb 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if any particular Government Department and their respective bodies under their aegis are expected to improve their performance in respect of savings, cost-cutting or reform targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10716/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Expenditure Reviews (27 Feb 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if in the context of the on-going need to reduce costs in line with the Memorandum of Understanding entered into by his predecessors, he sees the need to incentivise the achievement of such targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10717/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Expenditure Reviews (27 Feb 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total extent of savings achieved to date in the past five years through the elimination of waste; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10719/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Expenditure Reviews (27 Feb 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he has identified any issues which have culminated in cost overruns in each Government Department and or their subordinate bodies and or agencies in each of the past four years to date; the action required to address any such issues arising; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10721/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Croke Park Agreement Issues (27 Feb 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if in the context of cost cutting throughout the public sector arising from the Memorandum of Understanding entered into by his predecessors, it might be possible to take account of those public sector employees who are currently working the longest hours and in some situations under stressful conditions and currently under review in the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Croke Park Agreement Issues (27 Feb 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if in the context of cost-cutting measures arising from the Memorandum of Understanding entered into by his predecessors, he and his Department will endeavour to maintain the integrity of frontline services throughout the public sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10710/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Retirements (27 Feb 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons that have left the public service in each of the past five years to date either by way of natural retirement or redundancy; the extent to which the national pay bill has been affected as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10711/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Reform Implementation (27 Feb 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Government Department or bodies under their aegis that have shown the least progress in terms of public sector reform in the past five years ; the way this compares with those Departments that have achieved most in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10714/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of State Assets (27 Feb 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which the sale of State assets is proposed as a means of achieving budgetary targets in the coming year; if any such sales will have due regard for the need to preserve the integrity of the respective sectors in the national interest; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10718/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (27 Feb 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which insurance and procurement costs can be adjusted with a view to the maximisation of benefit and budgetary reduction for the benefit of the Exchequer over the next two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10720/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (27 Feb 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in respect of an appeal for invalidity pension in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; when the appeal will reach a conclusion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10530/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Appeals (27 Feb 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress made to date in the determination of an application for one parent family payment in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10662/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Croke Park Agreement Review (27 Feb 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the context of the review of the Croke Park Agreement or other discussions, it might have been found possible to identify the needs of public sector workers currently working in excess of the statutory working week with a view to minimising on them the impact the extent to which cost-cutting measures arising from the implementation of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Case of Mr. Sergei Magnitsky: Discussion (27 Feb 2013)

Bernard Durkan: There appears to have been major abuse of human rights in this particular case. To what extent has the international community been alerted and encouraged to bring pressure in respect of this matter on the authorities in Russia? In respect of the European Union, to what degree has the violation of human rights been used as a means of requiring the authorities in Russia to respond in a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Case of Mr. Sergei Magnitsky: Discussion (27 Feb 2013)

Bernard Durkan: Unfortunately, I must leave to chair the House. I am sorry.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Growth (28 Feb 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he can foresee an improvement in economic growth over the next two years with particular reference to the need to use such growth as a means of reducing debt to GDP ratios and keeping in mind the need for continued reduction in the current budget deficit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10590/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Availability (28 Feb 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he has had discussions with the lending agencies here with a view to ensuring the ready availability of adequate working capital to the industrial, commercial and retail sectors with particular reference to the need to ensure that overdraft and/or working capital facilities are made available in a way to retain and expand various components...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Availability (28 Feb 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he receives regular communication from the banking sector with regard to the responsibility of the lending institutions to meet the credit requirements of business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10925/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (28 Feb 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has received confirmation from the Department of Justice and Equality regarding entitlement to an Irish passport in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10905/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Growth (28 Feb 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he expects economic growth projections to be improved in the wake of the agreement in respect of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation promissory notes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10920/13]