Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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305. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of all third level courses, training programmes and courses provided for employees of his Department, and accompanying cost, for the 2013-2014 academic year, from 1 September 2013 to the end of June 2014. [30092/14]

Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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The table below sets out a breakdown of all third level courses, training programmes and courses provided for employees of my Department from 1 September 2013 to the end of June 2014.

Third Level Fees

[1] Training shown at nil cost is training provided in-house by Departmental staff.

* This is training provided on a group basis.

Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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306. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources 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 provision for his Department. [30107/14]

Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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In 2014 the total budget for training and development in my Department is €120,000.

The table below shows the potential annual saving to the Exchequer of a 5%, 7%, 10%, 12%, 15%, 17% and 20% reduction to training and development based on the budget for 2014.

My Department continuously seeks to deliver training and development programmes to staff at a reduced cost while meeting the overall objective of building capability within the Department.