Written answers
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Department of An Taoiseach
Departmental Reports
11:00 pm
Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 141: To ask the Taoiseach the list of all proposals in the Report of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure relating to his Department or to bodies or agencies under his remit which have been implemented to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13889/10]
Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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The position is summarised in the table beneath:
| Recommendation | Action Taken | |
| NESDO | Discontinue NESDO except for the NESC | The NESF and the NCPP, constituent bodies of the NESDO, are being dissolved and their staff are being absorbed into the NESC. |
| Ireland Newfoundland Partnership | Discontinuation of the Ireland Newfound Partnership | The work of the Ireland Newfoundland Partnership has been subsumed into my Department |
| Active Citizenship Office | Discontinuation of Active Citizenship Office | The work of the Active Citizenship Office has been subsumed into my Department. |
| Central Statistics Office | Staff Restructuring | Restructuring measures are yielding savings of €2.7million in the CSO in 2010. Re-organisation plan prepared by CSO and implemented from September 2009 has same overall impact as McCarthy Report proposals.The following are being implemented in 2010: Closure of library Consolidation of administrative support, changing data collection methodologies; Using ICT in collecting price data for the Consumer Price Index; Greater use of administrative data, where available, in the compilation of the major annual structural surveys of business; Reduction of field staff employed to follow up business surveys. |
| Reduce Census 2011 Costs | Census of Population administration costs are being reduced by €0.3m on an ongoing basis from 2010 onwards. Larger once-off savings of €2.7m are planned for 2011, when the Census will be collected. | |
| Expedite the use of electronic solutions for data extraction and filing, in the first instance for business and commercial returns with the household and census forms following as soon as practicable | Electronic systems for extraction and return of earnings payroll data are in place. Further development of e-forms solutions for business surveys is being planned. | |
| Attorney General's Office | Administrative Savings | Included in the calculation of Estimates for 2010. |
| Chief State Solicitor's Office | Administrative Savings | Recommendations were taken into account in forming the 2010 Estimates. The provisional outturn for 2009 shows a saving of €1m over the 2009 estimate. The 2010 estimate is reduced by a further €1.8m over the 2009 provisional outturn. |
| Director of Public Prosecutions | Administrative Savings | Achieved. |
| Reduction in Profesional Fees | In 2009 a reduction of 8% was applied to legal fees paid to barristers engaged by the DPP's Office. It is estimated that this produced savings of approximately €640,000 in 2009 and will realise savings of the order of €1m in 2010. A further 8% reduction is being applied to barrister's fees from 1 April 2010. This will produce further savings on top of those already realised. |
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