Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent)
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136. To ask the Minister for Finance the breakdown of the training and development and incidental expenses incurred by his Department in the year ending 31 December 2017. [22140/18]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The Department of Finance continues to invest in staff development in order to supplement the skills and qualifications of the teams, through a combination of internal and external training, learning and development.

The Department strives to improve learning and development in order to develop greater professional, technical, management and leadership skills.  Using the Performance Management and Development System (PMDS), the Department reviews the staff's performance and endeavours to identify any skills requiring enhancement so as to ensure the Department's training resources meet the business objectives.

In striving to be 'the best we can be' the Department's Learning and Development Strategy 2014-2016 introduced the Department's model of learning which utilises the 70:20:10 approach. This strategy was reviewed in 2017 and is being reassessed in 2018.

The Department has proceeded to invest in its people to increase the knowledge available which can be drawn upon for the benefit of the Department and ultimately the State. At the beginning of 2017, the Department was shortlisted and won "the Best Learning and Development Organisation” – Medium Category at the Irish Institute of Training and Development (IITD) Awards. This award recognises the importance of a learning culture which is lead by senior management and the commitment of management and staff to learning and development within the Department by benchmarking the Department against other high performance organisations.

I wish to advise the Deputy that my officials are currently preparing in tabular format the information sought by the Deputy and that this information will issue directly to the Deputy in due course.

Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent)
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137. To ask the Minister for Finance the breakdown of the travel and subsistence expenses incurred by his Department in the year ending 31 December 2017. [22156/18]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The information requested by the Deputy for travel and subsistence expenses incurred by my department during 2017 is contained in the following table. 

Sum of Trip Value

Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent)
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138. To ask the Minister for Finance the consultancy services, value for money and policy review expenses incurred by his Department in the year ending 31 December 2017. [22172/18]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The information requested by the Deputy for 2017 for consultancy services is contained in the following table.