Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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884. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form a list of all professional fees, including but not limited to legal, consultancy, IT related, advisory, advertising and accountancy; the company name and the amount invoiced between 1 June 2012 and 31 May 2013. [34549/13]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I wish to refer the Deputy to my reply to PQ 36656/12 of the 19th July 2012, which covered the period to the end of June 2012, wherein I advised that the only manner in which my Department can identify professional services is by reference to the automatic deduction of Professional Withholding Tax. This tax covers a range of professional activities not limited to the examples supplied by the Deputy. The listing sought by the Deputy amounts to over 520,000 individual transactions over the 12 month period to the end of May 2013. As previously advised, the sheer volume and scale of information sought would make the provision of a full listing unsuitable for transmission via the PQ System.

In the period from the 1st of June 2012 to 31st May 2013 a total of 2,530 individual suppliers submitted invoices totalling circa €61.3m, from which Withholding Tax was deducted. Of this total over 92% is accounted for by payments to legal professionals under the system of Criminal Legal Aid.

Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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885. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of all third level courses, training programmes and courses and accompanying cost for the 2012/2013 academic year 1 September 2012 to 30 June 2013 provided for employees of his Department. [34565/13]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Given her reference to academic year, it is presumed that the Deputy is seeking information on courses of study, funded by my Department and pursued by staff outside of work. Training programmes and courses organised by the Department's Training Units do not run on an academic year basis.

Each year my Department invites staff to make an application for funding under the Post-Entry Education scheme. Applications are considered with reference to the overall cost, relevance and significance of the course to the applicant's role and to the work of their Division / the Department. The funding that my Department provides would vary from 50% up to 100%.

The table below sets out details on courses supported under this scheme for the academic year 2012/13: