Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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240. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the annual saving to the Exchequer of a 20% reduction to 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. [34577/13]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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Based on my reply to PQ no. 34577/13, the gross expenditure by my Department on professional fees was 3.672 million euros. A 20% reduction on this would yield savings of 734,000 euros.

Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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241. To ask the Minister for Finance 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. [34593/13]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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The following table sets out the Department of Finance’s travel and subsistence expenditure for 2012.

My Department has calculated the annual savings to the Exchequer based on the percentage reductions being applied to the figure of €392,000 (i.e ignoring the non-recurring Presidency amounts)

Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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242. To ask the Minister for Finance 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. [34609/13]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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The current allocation for training and development for 2013 in the Department of Finance is €311,000. The Department of Finance continues to invest in staff development in order to supplement the skills and qualifications of our teams through a combination of internal and external training and development initiatives. Under the revised Statement of Strategy 2011-2014, the Department aims to improve training in order to develop greater technical, management and leadership skills. Using the performance management and development system (PMDS), the Department will review our staff’s performance, and identify any skills requiring enhancement to ensure our training resources are used most effectively. The Department also undertook a comprehensive Training Needs Analysis (TNA) survey in late 2012 which has also assisted in identifying the training and development needs of staff within the Department.

The Department of Finance has completed 36 training programmes to date this year and has given training to 499 participants (please note some staff members may have participated in more than one training programme).

The annual savings to the Exchequer of a 5%, 7%, 10%, 12%, 15%, 17% and 20% reduction to this allocation are outlined in the table below:

Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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243. To ask the Minister for Finance 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. [34625/13]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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In my Department, I have appointed Mary Kenny and Eoin Dorgan as special advisors. Their salaries are outlined as follows.

The payscales for Principal are outlined below: