Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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1149. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the protocol for attendance by staff, both civil servants and political non-civil servants, to continuing professional development programmes and courses; the number of staff, both civil servants and political non-civil servants, in his Department who participated in such programmes on an annual basis in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017; the costs incurred by his Department for persons who participated in these courses; the providers of all such courses; the subject areas of all courses and programmes provided, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46066/17]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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As a newly established Government Department, we are currently in the process of establishing a Learning and Development Unit. Our development programmes and courses are currently being provided on a transitional shared service basis by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government. As a result, it is not possible to collate the information requested by the Deputy in the time allowed. I will arrange for the information to be forwarded to the Deputy in due course.