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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Expenditure (18 Dec 2014)

Barry Cowen: 610. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total external public relations costs incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012 and 2013 and estimated for 2014. [49388/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Staff Expenses (18 Dec 2014)

Barry Cowen: 604. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the total amount spent per annum in 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014 on staff subsistence payments and staff taxi payments; if his Department has been audited for tax compliance on these payments and other benefits in kind; if these processes have been revised in view of Revenue Commissioner's...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Staff Career Breaks (18 Dec 2014)

Barry Cowen: 622. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide in tabular form, the number of staff in her Department currently on a sabbatical/career break broken down by zero to six months, six to 12 months, one to two years, two to three years, four to five years and more than five years. [49120/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Expenditure (18 Dec 2014)

Barry Cowen: 623. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide, in tabular form, the total photography costs for her Department since coming to office inclusive of costs incurred from use of the ministerial allowance; the occasions for which photographers were booked; the photographers used; the breakdown of costs associated with each occasion that a photographer was used;...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Public Relations Contracts Data (18 Dec 2014)

Barry Cowen: 624. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide in tabular form, the use of external public relations firms employed by her Department since coming to office; the list of uses of the external public relations firm; the internal Department policy with regard to employing external groups; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49150/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Expenditure (18 Dec 2014)

Barry Cowen: 625. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total amount spent on external IT consultants by her Department in 2010 to 2013, inclusive, and to date in 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49165/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Expenditure (18 Dec 2014)

Barry Cowen: 626. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has re-negotiated external IT consultancy contracts and costs since March 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49180/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Appointments to State Boards (18 Dec 2014)

Barry Cowen: 627. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide the number of appointments to State boards under her Department's remit made since March 2011 to date; the number of vacancies in State boards under her Department's remit since March 2011 to date; the number of vacancies in State boards under her Department's remit publicly advertised since March 2011 to date;...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Freedom of Information Requests (18 Dec 2014)

Barry Cowen: 628. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide in tabular form per annum from 2009 to date in 2014 the total number of freedom of information requests received by her Department; the total refused; total granted; total part granted; total appealed; total successful appeals; total part successful appeals; total refusals; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Reports (18 Dec 2014)

Barry Cowen: 629. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide in tabular form per annum all external consultant reports commissioned by her Department since march 2011; the costs per report; the company involved; the title of the report; and the publication date. [49253/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Staff Expenses (18 Dec 2014)

Barry Cowen: 630. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide in tabular form the total amount spent per annum in 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014 on staff subsistence payments and staff taxi payments; if her Department has been audited for tax compliance on these payments and other benefits in kind; if these processes have been revised in view of Revenue...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Legal Costs (18 Dec 2014)

Barry Cowen: 631. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total legal costs incurred by her Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [49334/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Public Relations Contracts Expenditure (18 Dec 2014)

Barry Cowen: 635. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total external public relation costs incurred by her Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [49375/14]

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Barry Cowen: It should be remembered that on Committee Stage we had just 45 minutes to discuss each section.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Dec 2014)

Barry Cowen: I support Deputy Murphy's amendment. I wish to echo the questions put to the Minister of State. Will he clarify whether the proceeds from development charges, or a portion of them pertaining to water, will now be transferred to Irish Water? It is opportunistic in the extreme when one considers that last night we were discussing the fact that liabilities of €460 million associated...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Dec 2014)

Barry Cowen: Three strikes and the Deputy is out.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Dec 2014)

Barry Cowen: I move amendment No. 42:In page 12, line 29, after “determine.” to insert the following:"All Board appointments shall be subject to the approval of the Joint Committee on the Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht.".This amendment deals with appointments to the board of Irish Water under section 13. The Minister informed us that the purpose of the section is to provide for an...

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2014)

Barry Cowen: We have still not got the answers.

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2014)

Barry Cowen: The Taoiseach closed the debate down, rather than give them.

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2014)

Barry Cowen: Deputy Leo Varadkar.