Noel Grealish (Galway West, Independent)
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To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the budget for his Department; the amount of this budget that is used to run his Department; the number of staff employed by his Department; the total amount paid in wages to these staff; the amount of his Department budget that goes directly to farmers; the number of State boards under the control of his Department; the cost of administration and Director remuneration for these boards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49531/12]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Full details of the Department’s 2012 budgets are set in the “2012 Revised Estimates for Public Services” and on the Department’s website. The total budget available to my Department for 2012 is approximately €2,628 million. This comprises €1,339 million in Voted Exchequer funds and a further €1,289 million non Voted funds (100% funded by the EU), the bulk of which (€1,250 million) relates to the Single Payment Scheme. Of the total €2,628 million budget, approximately, €1,916 million is allocated to various budget lines involving payments to farmers. At the end of September 2012, the total number of staff directly employed by the Department was 3,292. The 2012 Administrative Budget, which funds all of the Department’s operational costs is €235 million, of which €184.5 million is allocated to fund staff salaries and wages. There are twelve State Bodies under the aegis of my Department listed in the table. The most recent figures available for the annual cost of these State Bodies which receive exchequer funding are outlined as follows: