Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 305: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of money owed to private firms by his Department. [42265/10]

Pat Carey (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department's policy is to pay all suppliers as quickly as possible. This reflects not only the legal obligation to pay within 30 days and the additional administrative requirement arising from a Government Decision to make payments within 15 days of receipt of a valid invoice, but also recognises that it is important for suppliers to receive payments due without unnecessary delays.

My Department normally makes payments to suppliers several times a week. In the year to date, over 90% of payments have been made within the 15 day period, with the bulk of the remainder paid within the 30 day window.

Any invoices currently on hand that are due for payment to private firms have been received in the past few days and amount to less than €6,000. All of these amounts will be paid this week.

Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 306: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of external reports and reviews commissioned by his Department in 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010; if he will name each report and review; if he will outline the spending on external reports and reviews in each of those years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42280/10]

Pat Carey (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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Details in relation to the external reports and reviews commissioned by my Department in the years 2008, 2009 and 2010 to date are set out in the table below.

For completeness, the Deputy should be aware that the details include expenditure incurred during the relevant timeframe by divisions that transferred to my Department in mid-2010 from the Department of Social Protection and the Department of Justice and Law Reform.

TABLE: External reports and reviews commissioned in the years 2008, 2009 and 2010 (to date)

Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 307: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs the total capital spending allocated to his Department in 2010; the total allocated moneys spent; the allocated capital spending within his Department in 2010 for each project in tabular form; the amount allocated to each project; the amount spent to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42295/10]

Pat Carey (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department's capital allocation for 2010, as shown in the Further Revised Estimates, is €104.999m. Provisional spend to the end of October was approximately €75m. These figures are broken down in the table below.

TABLE: 2010 Capital Allocation for the Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs (€m)

Finally, the Deputy should note that I am expecting that the overall capital allocation for my Department will be spent by year-end.

Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 308: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount spent by his Department on public relations and advertising in the years 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42308/10]

Pat Carey (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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Details in relation to direct expenditure by my Department on public relations and advertising in the years 2008, 2009 and 2010 to date is set out in the table below. For completeness, the Deputy should be aware that the details provided include expenditure incurred during the relevant timeframe by divisions that transferred to my Department in mid-2010 from the Department of Social Protection and the Department of Justice and Law Reform.

TABLE: Expenditure on public relations and advertising in 2008, 2009 and 2010 to date

Key areas where expenditure was incurred included the following: · Funding for a television series and competition for schools organised in

2008 as part of a disability public awareness campaign;

· Advertisements relating to the public consultation processes undertaken as part of the preparation of the National Drugs Strategy 2009-2016 and the 20-year Strategy for Irish;

· Advertisements relating to the launches of phases one and two of the Equality for Women' measure of the National Women's Strategy 2007-2016;

· A public invitation for applications for membership of the Ministerial Council on Integration;

· Advertisements relating to the National Walks Scheme;

· Advertisements relating to the promotion of the Traveller Interagency Strategy;

· Public notices relating, inter alia, to applications/disbursements under the Dormant Accounts legislation;

· Departmental entries in the State section (green pages) of the 2009, 2010 and 2011 Telephone Directories;

· Payments to the Public Appointments Service for advertisements relating to certain competitions organised on behalf of my Department; and

· Statutory notices published in Iris Oifigiúil.