Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Independent)
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169. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total amount of outsourcing that has been achieved in his Department since the letter sent by Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in March 2012; the names of the outsourcing companies that have been involved; the total savings achieved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3304/14]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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My Department has availed of outsourcing in connection with support services for several years. For example, since 2009, the Department’s IT Shared Service has been provided through an outsourced arrangement. The Department’s Financial Shared Service Centre (FSS) in Killarney has also been providing payroll and other financial services to the Department and its agencies, and to a number of other Government Departments, on a shared service basis, for some years. In relation to payroll services, the FSS is providing one of the three locations for the Government’s central payroll shared service. In line with the letter sent by the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform my Department continues to examine its own work and the work of its agencies to identify areas of work suitable for external service delivery. This includes areas which could maximise the services that are already delivered to one agency and may be extended to other agencies.

For the Deputy’s information a table outlining those services outsourced since March 2012 is below.