Written answers
Wednesday, 23 January 2013
Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Departmental Websites
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of complaints he has received regarding the new eTenders website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3059/13] - Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the discussions he has had with Troika officials in respect of ensuring that departmental spending overruns are minimised; and if he will... - Freedom of Information Legislation
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which the designation of commercially sensitive information is arrived at; if his Department has specific guidelines in place for... - Public Sector Reform Implementation
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline, as per the current Croke Park agreement, the structures that have been put in place by the Implementation Body for... - National Lottery
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether shopkeepers and agents for the National Lottery will be adequately remunerated for their services under his proposals... - Public Sector Reform Review
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has estimated the deflationary impact if further reductions of €1 billion are imposed on the pay and conditions of public sector... - Public Procurement Contracts
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if social clauses will be added to public procurement contracts specifically targeting youth and long term unemployment. [3066/13] - Office of Public Works Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied that value for money has been achieved by the Office of Public Works in respect of expenditure incurred to date in... - Public Procurement Contracts
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures he will take to open up public procurement to small companies. [3068/13] - Public Sector Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the action he will take to ensure that the principle of equal pay for equal work in public sector pay is not undermined. [3080/13] - Economic Competitiveness
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is reviewing any new proposals to address excessive pay in the public and private sector; and if he will make a statement on the... - Public Sector Recruitment
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is considering reviewing the blanket moratorium on recruitment in the public sector in view of the staffing needs of different sections... - Sale of State Assets
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to privatise semi-State companies in the course of 2013. [3055/13] - Equality Issues
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in the context of his commitment to reform, if he will consider setting up a unit within his Department with responsibility for integrating... - Flood Relief Schemes
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will explain where the sum of €270,000 which was allocated to Roscommon County Council in 2010 for the purpose of flood... - Capital Expenditure Programme
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if more effective procedures will be put in place to ensure that the overall Exchequer capital budget is spent in line with the annual... - Political Reform
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for political reform in 2013; the proposals he has for constitutional amendments; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Equality Issues
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the equality audits carried out by his Department in relation to any area of public expenditure since his Department was... - Budget Targets
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he expects to meet his budgetary targets in 2013 having regard to progress made to date and the options available to him;... - Public Services
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for new shared services across the public services; the lessons that have been learned from recent experiences in respect of shared... - Freedom of Information Legislation
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in the event of a public body being found not to be covered by the Freedom of Information legislation to be introduced by him later this... - Commercial Rates
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the discussions he has had with the Valuation Office in respect of valuing for commercial rates purposes assets to be transferred to any new... - Public Procurement Contracts
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to underbidding by companies awarded public procurement contracts. [3063/13] - Semi-State Bodies
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he expects to be the shareholder on behalf of the State for any new commercial semi-State entities or State companies; and if he will make... - Office of Public Works Properties
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the security and leasing costs of vacant Office of Public Works' properties throughout the State; and his plans to make such premises... - Public Sector Staff Redeployment
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a measure of the level of employment flexibility that exists within the public service in terms of both redeployment,... - Public Sector Staff
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the actions that have been taken to date in respect of the public sector voluntary redundancy scheme he announced in October 2012; if a cost... - Valuation Office
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, in view of the early retirement of many senior valuers and the freeze on public sector recruitment, the Valuation Office is sufficiently... - Public Procurement Contracts
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the number of occasions since March 2011 that a contracting authority has excluded an applicant from a... - Proposed Legislation
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 23 of 21November 2012, the reason there was no consultation with any organisation or body which... - Public Private Partnerships
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider making the contracts for public private partnerships publicly available to enhance accountability; if his attention has... - Public Sector Staff Grades
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the percentage of senior civil servants from Principal Officer upwards that are women; and the percentage of Assistant Secretaries General... - Government Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has assessed the impact of reductions in public expenditure following Budget 2012 and Budget 2013 announcements on the unemployed,... - Proposed Legislation
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans regarding legislation for Oireachtas inquiries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2822/13] - Job Creation
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of jobs that have been created to date as a result of the EU €2 billion stimulus package; the number that will be put in... - Freedom of Information Legislation
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he intends consulting with the Information Commissioner in relation to those State agencies and or bodies which may be excluded from the...
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