Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 402: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a list of all current time-related savings/delayed spending of Budget 2012 allocations on staff and or resources in her Department. [36722/12]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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I understand that the Deputy is referring to any decisions which might have been made within the Department to defer the appointment of staff or other administration expenditure in order to curtail the overall expenditure of the Department in 2012. No such decisions have been made. My Department continues to source staff to fill critical vacancies by way of redeployment, or transfer from within the Department and from other Government Departments and Agencies, taking account of the employment control framework (ECF) target, as determined by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.