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Written Answers — Public Sector Staff: Public Sector Staff (13 Jun 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 166: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of agency and contract staff currently employed in the public sector; the mechanism in place for monitoring and managing the associated costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28928/12]

Written Answers — State Bodies: State Bodies (13 Jun 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 173: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the fact that the Equality Authority has announced its decision to move all of its staff from Roscrea, County Tipperary, the proposals that he has to deal with the office accommodation that is currently covered by a twenty year lease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28600/12]

Written Answers — Public Sector Staff: Public Sector Staff (13 Jun 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 183: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of agency and contract staff currently employed in the public sector; the mechanism in place for monitoring and managing the associated costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28926/12]

Written Answers — Public Sector Staff: Public Sector Staff (13 Jun 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 191: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of agency and contract staff currently employed in the public sector; the mechanism in place for monitoring and managing the associated costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28922/12]

Written Answers — Public Sector Staff: Public Sector Staff (13 Jun 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 202: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of agency and contract staff currently employed in the public sector; the mechanism in place for monitoring and managing the associated costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28924/12]

Written Answers — Hospital Procedures: Hospital Procedures (13 Jun 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 218: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an MRI scan in respect of a person in County Laois (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28504/12]

Written Answers — Public Sector Staff: Public Sector Staff (13 Jun 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 239: To ask the Minister for Health the number of agency and contract staff currently employed in the public sector; the mechanism in place for monitoring and managing the associated costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28930/12]

Sale of State Assets (13 Jun 2012)

Seán Fleming: On the sale of State assets, I judge each case on its merits. I do not have a philosophical objection, nor am I am supporter of a philosophy on it. The Minister is saying he is selling key State assets that are not part of the core of Bord Gáis. Irish Water is not part of the core of Bord Gáis and people feel it will fall into the same category. I accept the Minister means what he says...

Public Sector Reform (13 Jun 2012)

Seán Fleming: The Minister has given a glowing account of what is contained in the second report of the implementation group but I asked what are his criteria for assessing the report. I note the figures for the reduction in staff numbers are good and the public sector pay bill has been reduced and I note the non-pay savings. What has been the cost of the severance payments for the 11,500 staff who left...

Public Sector Reform (13 Jun 2012)

Seán Fleming: I have, yes.

Public Sector Reform (13 Jun 2012)

Seán Fleming: I asked the Minister a question about severance costs, not about pensions.

Public Sector Reform (13 Jun 2012)

Seán Fleming: I want that figure either now or in the immediate future. It is not there. The HSE's chief executive told the Committee of Public Accounts that it is costing €380 million up front to achieve a saving of €80 million net per annum in the HSE. He broke down those figures at the Committee of Public Accounts. The Minister has misread his own chart. The bottom line on chart No. 3 refers to...

Public Sector Reform (13 Jun 2012)

Seán Fleming: No.

Public Sector Reform (13 Jun 2012)

Seán Fleming: I did not get a figure on severance costs.

Public Sector Staff (13 Jun 2012)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Minister for his reply, the final sentence of which answers my question. I was not asking about the number of contract staff in the Minister's Department or in the Comptroller and Auditor General's office, although I am surprised at the numbers given by the Minister in that regard, but about my hobby horse, the health service, where there are vacancies in hospitals countrywide...

Public Sector Staff (13 Jun 2012)

Seán Fleming: Will the Minister make it his business to get this information compiled centrally so that somebody at Government level has a handle on it? It is not on to have this information dispersed with no one knowing what is going on.

Re-employment of Retired Public Servants (13 Jun 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 1: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number and extent to which staff who recently retired from the public service have been re-hired; if guidelines are in place regarding the duration of such contracts; if he will ensure that such contracts are for no longer than six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28316/12]

Re-employment of Retired Public Servants (13 Jun 2012)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Minister for his response and appreciate the information he has provided. The main issue on which the people want a response in this regard concerns the biggest category in the public sector, health services, which employ approximately one third of all public servants. Somewhere along the line, the Minister, Deputy Reilly, must be brought into line with everything happening in...

Re-employment of Retired Public Servants (13 Jun 2012)

Seán Fleming: I am pleased the Minister agrees with me with regard to the health service, because we cannot come in here again the next time we have questions on public expenditure and still have a lacuna in terms of information on the health service. Will the Minister consider issuing a circular setting out a minimum period for which a person can be rehired temporarily? If the period is over six months,...

Sale of State Assets (13 Jun 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 4: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will exclude Bord Gáis from the list of State assets to be sold in order to protect the parent company of Irish Water from the privatisation process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28657/12]