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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (11 Jun 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: 287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is considering ring-fencing the current teacher pupil ratio of 23:1 for fee paying protestant schools. [27503/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (11 Jun 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: 289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his committment to equal right of children with respect to education; if he is prepared to keep the teacher/pupil ration at 23:1 and commit not to further cut the funding to fee paying protestant schools, or if he will proceed with discrimination against pupils of protestant ethos. [27507/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (11 Jun 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: 288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if is considering a contingency plan for protestant parents who may no longer be able to afford to send their children to protestant fee paying schools. (details supplied). [27504/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (11 Jun 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: 290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he decides to proceed with the budgetary cuts and discriminate against protestant pupils, the backup plan for families when they will no longer be able to send children to a protestant ethos school as the only other non-fee paying protestant ethos school (details supplied) in County Dublin in the vicinity is full. [27510/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Tourism Promotion (11 Jun 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: 353. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works will list the top ten OPW managed tourist sites in Dublin; the pricing structure for each site; and the number of visitors to each site per annnum. [28026/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (11 Jun 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: 376. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline the criteria used to abolish the book allowance grant for students eligible for the back to education allowance; and if she will outline what alternative grants are available that BTEA students could apply for (details supplied). [27511/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (11 Jun 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: 701. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will clarify the mandate of the reception and integration agency and whether or not the RIA has the power to delegate the care of asylum seekers and inspection of Direct Provision centres to privately operated, for-profit companies. [26947/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (28 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: 247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to Student Universal Support Ireland student grant administration, the number of service providers that were invited to tender for the contract; the performance criteria set for delivery of the contract by City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee; if City of Dublin VEC will pay any financial penalty for their under performance...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Reform Implementation (28 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: 314. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of quasi autonomous non-Governmental organisations including State bodies, agencies and boards, that have been abolished, merged, or absorbed into existing State bodies, respectively; the level of savings that have been achieved as a result; and the number of quangos that now remain; the difference between this figure and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (28 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: 358. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is considering coordinating the relevant agencies in developing a youth guarantee tailored to assist at risk young persons to secure a home, education and work experience over a two year period. [25148/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourist Sites (28 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: 699. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Office of Public Works will list the top 10 tourist sites here; the pricing structure for each site; and the number of visitors that each site receives per annum. [25128/13]

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: I congratulate the Minister for bringing forward the Bill. The referendum on the powers of inquiries failed in 2011, which, in one respect, was an incredible achievement by the people, given the near consensus politically in favour of making an amendment to the Constitution. Much of the commentary at the time was very much in favour of the amendment, but the people chose to do otherwise....

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: And would that be clarified as a cost saving?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: In paragraph 14.15 there is a statement from the Comptroller and Auditor General: In the OPW's Vote estimate for 2012 it reported NPS savings achieved on existing public service contracts of €28.2 million in 2011. In addition, it stated that there were further administrative savings but these were not quantified or valued.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: So they will say a saving was achieved but they will not provide a figure because it will appear elsewhere.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Moving on to page 191, paragraph 14.19, figure 14.4 is to do with energy savings. A saving of €4.2 million is attributed to the review of tariffs and import capacity levels, and the NPS methodology is: Comparison of existing tariffs and charges on a meter by meter basis to identify more economical tariffs. Reviews of 12,000 meters identified potential savings of €2.1 million....

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: That is the key question - was it realised? It is not a saving if it is not realised. It is just a figure on paper saying we could save this. Whose responsibility is it to verify that the saving has been realised?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Can Ms McGrath confirm that this saving was achieved in 2011?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: I am curious. On the Government books for 2011, does it say we saved €4.2 million on energy?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: So when the OPW reports the savings it achieved in 2011, or that were achieved through the work of the NPS, and it reports €4.2 million in energy savings, were they actually savings?