Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 226: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide, in tabular form, details of public service provision responsibilities of his Department outsourced to the private sector; and the cost of each service outsourced over the past 12 months. [36698/12]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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The information requested is not readily available within my Department and it would require a substantial amount of time to compile the details sought.

The work of the Department and the wider Education and Training sector includes the use of a diverse range of outsourcing arrangements relating to such areas as the school building programme, education and training courses at various levels, services provided for teachers and special needs assistants and a range of corporate functions for education providers such as ICT support, payroll, HR, waste management, cleaning, security etc.

If the Deputy have a particular interest regarding a specific area of public service provision, my officials will endeavour to supply the details as far as possible.