Written answers

Wednesday, 21 November 2012

Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

 
  • Croke Park Agreement
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if changes will be put in place to the process for auditing of savings under the Croke Park Agreement in advance of the next implementation...
  • State Properties
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measure he plans to take to ensure more efficient use of State buildings in view of the reduction in the number of State employees...
  • Public Private Partnerships
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the demand he sees for participation in public private partnerships; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51638/12]
  • State Agencies
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has identified additional State agencies that can be rationalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51651/12]
  • Public Sector Staff Numbers
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the areas in which he has identified surplus numbers such that they will be targeted under his recently announced public sector voluntary...
  • Commercial Rates
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress that has been made in the revaluation of the commercial rates system; when a review of commercial rates in County Wexford will...
  • Banking Sector Remuneration
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the annual pension payment for 2011 paid to Dick Spring, Tom Considine, Joe Walsh, Ray MacSharry and Margaret Hayes. [51545/12]
  • Public Sector Reform
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has completed his review of the grading structure of the civil service and public service; and if he will provide details of his plan...
  • Parliamentary Inquiries
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he expects the Banking Inquiry to be established; his plans to set up a special committee of investigation for same; if he will be...
  • Oireachtas Members' Salaries
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he intends to review allowances paid to Oireachtas members. [51543/12]
  • Public Sector Reform
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether there has been a substantial increase in recent years in the number of citizens who feel forced to make representations...
  • Commercial Rates
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider amending the Valuation (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2012 to include an ability to pay clause based on economic hardship and an...
  • Public Sector Recruitment
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is concerned by the potential long term impact on recruitment and retention in the public sector from the range of reductions in pay...
  • Public Sector Pensions
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he intends to increase the public service pension reduction bands applied to high paid public sector pensions. [51542/12]
  • Parliamentary Inquiries
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in the context of last year's rejection by referendum of increased powers for Oireachtas inquiries, his views on whether the proposed Houses...
  • Public Sector Allowances
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress made in respect of reform of public sector allowances; the savings he expects to make in this area in 2012 and 2013; and if he...
  • Departmental Staff Remuneration
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider withdrawing the special TLAC pension provisions of an additional lump sum payment of half a years salary and up to ten...
  • Croke Park Agreement
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he expects negotiations to commence on a successor to the Croke Park Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51648/12]
  • Semi-State Sector Remuneration
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the number of former semi-State agency executives or employees, on an agency basis, in receipt of pensions in...
  • Public Procurement Contracts
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he is taking to assist small business to obtain public contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51424/12]
  • Expenditure Reviews
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if any public service cuts he is considering in Budget 2013 will be weighed up against the possible impact on front line services and on the...
  • Top Level Appointments Committee
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he intends to make any further changes to the Top Level Appointments Committee. [51551/12]
  • Public Service Redeployment
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the redeployment taking place across the system as stated in his progress on the implementation of the...
  • Ethics Legislation
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the work completed to date by his Department with regards to his commitment to overhaul the existing...
  • Parliamentary Inquiries
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a brief comparison between the Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2012 provisions and...
  • Public Sector Reform
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has received outsourcing plans from Health, Education , Justice and Local Government; if he will provide the short-list developed by...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of the Government Departments that have agreed to his request to publish purchase orders over €20,000; and...
  • Flood Prevention Measures
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps being taken to address flood risks within the Shannon basin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51425/12]
  • Public Procurement
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress made through reform of the procurement services throughout the country; the method that has been applied and the savings that...
  • Proposed Legislation
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider including the following definition of good faith in the Protected Disclosures in the Public Interest Bill 2012, a thing...
  • Semi-State Sector Remuneration
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the number of semi-State and State agency executives and employees on an agency by agency basis that have...
  • Oireachtas Members' Salaries
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he intends to reduce the annual salary paid to Deputies, Senators and Ministers. [51544/12]
  • Public Sector Reform
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of days annual leave that employees are permitted to carry over to a following year; the timescale in which they are required to...
  • Public Sector Pensions
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he intends to review current public sector pension abatement legislation. [51546/12]
  • Public Sector Reform
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the governance model for public sector reform initiated by him. [51550/12]
  • Proposed Legislation
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will set out the amendments that he intends to make to the Construction Contracts Bill. [51554/12]

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