Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 118: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide details of all payments both direct and indirect made by her Department into the SIPTU national health and local authority levy fund for each year over the past 15 years; the purpose of these payments; the reason each of these payments were made and the manner in which they were sanctioned in each case [38428/10]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)
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The Secretary General of my Department provided evidence to the Committee of Public Accounts on 7 October last about, inter alia, funding approvals issued by the Department in relation to the SKILL Programme, the Frontline Supervisors Programme and other management/union partnership activities from 2000 onwards. The Secretary General has since been asked by the Committee to provide documentation about payments to SIPTU and a formal report on the background to the decision to allocate funding to the "SIPTU National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund" including statements from "all staff who sanctioned these payments outlining the basis on which they gave sanction on behalf of the Minister for this expenditure". The Secretary General will be responding to the request from the Public Accounts Committee as soon as possible.