Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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682. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form the annual saving to the Exchequer of 1%, 5%, 7%, 10%, 12%, 15%, 17% and 20% reduction to travel and expenses for his Department. [34587/13]

Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North-West Limerick, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy will be aware, details of my Department's administrative provisions are published in the Revised Estimates Volume which is available on the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform's website via the following link: http://per.gov.ie/estpubexp2013/

However, for the Deputy's convenience, an allocation of €1.414m has been made available for Travel and Subsistence in 2013. The table below sets out the savings which would accrue based upon reductions of the order specified.

Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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683. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form the annual saving to the Exchequer of a 5%, 7%, 10%, 12%, 15%, 17% and 20% reduction to training and development for his Department. [34603/13]

Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North-West Limerick, Fine Gael)
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I am basing the calculations of savings requested by the Deputy on the total expenditure on training and development in 2012. Some €223,286 was spent on training and development in 2012.

The table below shows the saving to the Exchequer of a 5%, 7%, 10%, 12%, 15%, 17% and 20% reduction in the training and development expenditure of my Department for 2012.

Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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684. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form the annual saving to the Exchequer if all his special advisors pay was capped at the first point of the principal officer grade; if he will provide a list of all salaries, post implementation of the Haddington Road Agreement paid to his special advisors. [34619/13]

Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North-West Limerick, Fine Gael)
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As I have previously advised the House, I appointed Mr. James Kenny and Mr. Damien Garvey as my special advisors with effect from 7th June 2011 and 2nd April 2012 respectively.

Both were appointed at the first point of the Principal Officer standard scale, in accordance with the Guidelines on the staffing of Ministers' Offices . Mr. Kenny and Mr Garvey are on the third and second points of that scale respectively.

The annual saving to this Department if a pay cap were to be applied to their salaries is as set out in the table below.

*As Mr. Kenny is in receipt of a public service pension of €38,735, his current salary, post implementation of the Haddington Road Agreement, of €81,676 has been abated to €42,941 per annum.