Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance)
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To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount spent on outsourced security services in his Department; and if he will provide details of the companies providing these services. [8472/13]

Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance)
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To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount spent on outsourced cleaning services in his Department; and if he will provide details of the companies providing these services. [8486/13]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 187 and 188 together.

My Department spent a total of €506,089.11 on security services and a total of €316,148.81 on cleaning services in 2012. This represents the total expenditure by my Department in 2012 on security and cleaning services provided by private companies (outsourced) for official departmental premises in various locations around the country. These include my Department's main office locations in Dublin, Athlone and Tullamore as well as local and regional premies used by my Department's Inspectorate and the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS). The figures provided reflect the actual net cost to my Department i.e. excluding amounts which were met by other Government Departments/Agencies in respect of shared offices and/or premises. The following is a list of the companies that provide these services.