Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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403. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide in tabular form a breakdown of all third level courses, training programmes and courses provided for employees of her Department, and the accompanying cost, for the 2013-14 academic year, from 1 September 2013 to the end of June 2014. [30100/14]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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My Department is committed to promoting a culture of continuous learning and development and offers financial assistance where appropriate to staff pursuing a variety of courses under its refund of educational fees scheme. The vast majority of courses undertaken would fall into the categories of either public administration or legal studies. Such courses would have relevance across the Department.

Applications for funding are considered against a number of set criteria, including relevance to the individuals role and the work of the Department, cost and previous investment. In all cases funding is subject to the individual successfully completing their course of study. The Deputy will appreciate that, constraints on expenditure have however, had an impact on my Department's budget for training and development, therefore, in many cases funding is approved for a percentage only of the total fee and in arrears.

Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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404. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide in tabular form the annual saving to the Exchequer from a reduction of 5%, 7%, 10%, 12%, 15%, 17% and 20%, respectively, in the staff training and development provision at her Department. [30115/14]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The 2014 funding allocation for staff training and development for my Department is €375,000. The savings that would be accrued from percentage reductions on the funding allocation of 5%, 7%, 10%, 12%, 15%, 17% and 20% respectively are set out in the following table.