Written answers

Wednesday, 10 October 2012

Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

 
  • Departmental Properties
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way he intends to ensure that greater cooperation is achieved across State agencies in the use of State owned land and buildings; and if...
  • National Procurement Service Framework Agreements
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the impact on small local enterprises from the centralisation of procurement within the public service; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Departmental Properties
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number and location of empty buildings owned by the State; the cost to the Exchequer per annum of each of these buildings; and if he will...
  • Public Sector Staff Grades Review
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to include senior civil pay scales in his review of the grading structure of the civil service and public service. [43493/12]
  • Performance Management and Development System
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will subject the reformed Performance Management and Development System within the Civil Service to ongoing external monitoring and...
  • Public Sector Reform Review
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, as part of a wider programme of public service reform, he will confirm that a detailed and rigorous analysis has been undertaken or is...
  • National Lottery Licence Sale
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of initial expressions of interest in the National Lottery licence that have been received; the date on which the contract for...
  • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the incentivised career break for civil servants in 2009 which finished in June 2012 in view of the fact that many of the staff...
  • Departmental Legal Costs
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the expected total legal costs to be incurred in his Department in 2012; his proposals to reduce these costs; and if he will make a statement...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures he is putting in place to deal with departmental spending overruns in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43416/12]
  • Estimates Publication
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the revised procedures he is putting in place for the 2013 estimates; if he intends that they would be referred to Oireachtas committees in...
  • Public Sector Allowances Review
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the length of time it will take to realise the saving in respect of the annual value in allowances that will not be paid to new beneficiaries...
  • Pension Provisions
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of pension schemes taking part in the pensions insolvency scheme; his plans for the future development of the scheme; the amount...
  • Capital Programme Expenditure
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures he is taking to address the under spend in the Exchequer capital in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43419/12]
  • Legislative Programme
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he intends to take to review the valuation process in relation to business rates, with particular reference to enhancing the...
  • Public Sector Staff Issues
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to maintain frontline services in view of his plans for targeted voluntary redundancies in the public sector; and if he will make a...
  • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the anticipated total cost to the Exchequer of public sector pay increments in 2013; the amount of this figure that applies to public...
  • Public Sector Pensions Issues
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reduce pensions paid to former office holders. [43486/12]
  • Public Sector Staff Grades Review
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on his review of the grading structure of the civil service and public service; and if he intends to reduce the...
  • Croke Park Agreement Issues
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on any recent discussions he has had with the social partners. [43029/12]
  • Public Sector Pensions Expenditure
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if any currently serving secretaries general retain TLAC terms with regards to their pension provisions; if he will provide a list of those...
  • Legislative Programme
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will include a definition of good faith in the Protected Disclosures in the Public Interest Act; and if the legislation will be...
  • Flood Relief Schemes Applications
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he is taking to address the summer flooding in the Shannon Basin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43240/12]
  • Teachers' Remuneration
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way he intends to deal with the pay gap that has emerged between new entrant teachers and those appointed prior to his decision to...
  • Office of the Ombudsman Remit
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason for his decision to exclude an additional 50 agencies from the Ombudsman’s remit despite his Programme for Government...
  • Public Procurement Contracts Expenditure
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps that he is taking to assist small business to obtain public contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43239/12]
  • Public Sector Pensions Expenditure
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reduce excessive pensions paid to former senior civil servants. [43487/12]
  • Public Sector Reform Review
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will identify in detail the areas of the public service where redundant processes can be eliminated through the expanded use of IT...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which his programme of savings throughout the public sector to date remains on target with particular reference to the dual and...
  • Public Sector Allowances Review
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has attended any meetings with Department Secretaries General in relation to allowances; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

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