Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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138. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of all third level courses and training programmes and courses provided for employees of his Department, and the accompanying cost, for the 2013-2014 academic year, from 1 September 2013 to the end of June 2014. [30101/14]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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The following table outlines the range of academic programmes and courses pursued by staff in my Department for the academic year 1 September 2013 to 30 June 2014.   

Academic  year 2013/2014

The total cost in respect of the academic programmes and courses pursued is €162,055.00.

Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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139. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he 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 allocation for his Department. [30116/14]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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The training and development budget in 2014 for my Department is €220,000.  The following table outlines the annual saving to the Exchequer of a 5%, 7%, 10%, 12%, 15%, 17% and 20% reduction to the training and development budget.