Richard Bruton
Question:119 Mr. R. Bruton asked the Minister for Finance the programmes which have been examined under the expenditure review initiative in 2002, 2003 and 2004; and the programme planned for review in 2005. [30772/04]
View answerThursday, 25 November 2004
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I refer the Deputy to the schedule in appendix 6 of the expenditure review central steering committee report to the Minister for Finance on the expenditure review initiative for June 2002 to June 2004 which was recently laid before the Oireachtas. The schedule lists the programmes which have been reviewed to date and those planned for review to end April 2005 under the current round of reviews. Departments will be invited shortly, in the light of the report, to indicate the reviews which they intend to include in the new 2005 round of reviews.
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Department/Office |
Year of Review |
Review Title |
Status |
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Agriculture & Food |
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Reviews completed in earlier phase |
An Bord Bia |
(No. 12) |
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An Bord Glas |
(No. 13) |
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Teagasc |
(No. 14) |
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Reviews in 2002-2004 phase |
Rollover |
Rural environment protection scheme |
Completed (No. 68) |
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Rollover |
Operation of Land Commission |
Completed (not submitted to ERCSC) |
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2002 |
Support for the Potato Sector |
Completed (No. 75) |
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2002 |
Beef Classification |
Completed (No. 76) |
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2002 |
Overseas Development Aid Expenditure |
Completed (No. 81) |
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2002 |
Purchase for Destruction |
Completed (No. 82) |
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2002 |
Installation Aid |
To be completed 2004 |
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2003/4 (Rollover) |
Early Retirement Scheme |
For completion 2004 |
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2003/4 |
Farm Waste Management |
For completion 2004 |
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2003/4 |
BSE Eradication |
Confirmed for 2004 |
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2003/4 |
Compensatory Allowances |
Confirmed for 2004 |
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Arts, Sport & Tourism |
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Reviews completed in earlier phase |
Expenditure review of CERT |
(No. 19) |
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Sport Capital Programme |
(No. 20) |
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Overseas Tourism Marketing Initiative |
(No. 37) |
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Shannon Development Tourism Activities |
(No. 49) |
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Bord Fáilte Éireann |
(No. 57) |
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Reviews in 2002-2004 phase |
2002 |
Swimming pools programme |
For completion 2004 |
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2002 |
Irish Sports Council |
For completion 2004 |
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2002 |
Irish Film Board |
For completion 2004 |
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2003/4 |
Sports capital programme (lottery funding) |
Quality Assessed |
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Communications, Marine & Natural Resources |
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Reviews completed in earlier phase |
Irish Marine Emergency Service |
(No. 22) |
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Geological Survey of Ireland |
(No. 56) |
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Reviews in 2002-2004 phase |
Rollover |
BIM (Ice Plants) |
Completed (No. 62) |
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Rollover |
Fishery Harbours Programme |
Completed (No. 63) |
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Rollover |
Coast Protection Programme |
Completed (No. 61) |
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2003/4 |
Marine Research/RTDI |
For completion 2004 |
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2003/4 |
National Seabed Survey |
For completion 2005 |
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2003/4 |
Energy (Conservation and Alternative) |
For completion 2005 |
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Community, Rural & Gaeltacht Affairs |
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Reviews completed in earlier phase |
Athbhreithniú ar Dheontais faoi Achtanna na dTithe (Gaeltacht) 1929-79 |
(U. 26) |
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Canals Expenditure Review |
(No. 27) |
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Operational Programme for Local Urban and Rural Development 94/99 |
(No. 35) |
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Údarás na Gaeltachta |
(U. 48) |
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Reviews in 2002-2004 phase |
2003/4 |
Scéimeanna Feabhsúcháin sa Gaeltacht |
For completion 2004 |
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2003/4 |
Ciste na hOileáin (alternative topic may be proposed by Joint Steering Committee) |
For completion 2005 |
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2003/4 |
Ciste na Gaeilge (Alternative topic may be proposed by Joint Steering Committee) |
For completion 2005 |
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2003/4 |
Drugs Initiative |
For completion 2004 |
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Courts Service |
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Reviews completed in earlier phase |
N.A. |
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Reviews in 2002- 2004 phase |
2002 |
Courthouse Maintenance costs |
Quality assessed |
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2003/4 |
Stenography/Interpreters’ fees |
Confirmed |
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Defence |
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Reviews completed in earlier phase |
Provision of Medical Services to the Defence Forces |
(No. 45) |
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Review of the Irish Naval Service & Air Corps |
Not submitted to ERCSC |
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Naval Service Implementation Plan |
Do. |
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Air Corps Implementation Plan |
Do. |
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White Paper on Defence |
Do. |
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Reviews in 2002-2004 phase |
2002 |
Maintenance of Aircraft |
Quality Assessed |
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2003/4 |
Defence Forces clothing programme |
For completion 2005 |
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Education & Science |
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Reviews completed in earlier phase |
Primary Education |
(No. 33) |
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Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann |
(No. 34) |
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Reviews in 2002-2004 phase |
Rollover |
Review of the Home/School/Community Liaison Scheme |
Completed (No. 69) |
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2002 |
1st & 2nd Level Building Programmes: Minor Works Grant for Primary School |
For completion 2004 |
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2002 |
Operation of Education Centres |
At Quality Assessment |
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2002 |
Supply Panel for Primary Teaching |
Quality Assessed |
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2002 |
Youth Encounter Projects |
For completion 2004 |
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2003/4 |
1st & 2nd Level Building Programmes: Topic 2 |
Confirmed |
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2003/4 |
Expenditure on guidance services |
Confirmed |
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2003/4 |
Schools ICT programmes |
Confirmed |
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2003/4 |
In career development |
Confirmed |
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2003/4 |
ICT undergraduate skills programmes |
Confirmed |
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Enterprise, Trade & Employment |
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Reviews completed in earlier phase |
IDA Ireland |
(No. 11) |
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Community Employment Programme |
(No. 15) |
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Standards-based Apprenticeship System |
(No. 52) |
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Forfás |
(No. 60) |
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Reviews in 2002-2004 phase |
Rollover |
Fás Specific Skills training |
Completed (No. 64) |
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CDR |
Supports for Long Term Unemployed (CDR leader) Phase I |
For completion 2004 |
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2003/4 |
IDA Ireland Property Programme |
For completion 2004 |
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2003/4 |
Enterprise Ireland Overseas Office Network |
Completed (No. 79) |
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2003/4 |
Science and Technology Spending |
For completion 2004/5 |
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Environment, Heritage & Local Government |
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Reviews completed in earlier phase |
Operational Programme for Environmental Services — Mid-Term Evaluation |
(No. 3) |
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Exchequer Capital Investment in Fire Service |
(No. 40) |
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Charges for Services provided by the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland |
(No. 55) |
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Local Authority Tenant Purchase Scheme |
(No. 56) |
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Review of the efficiency of County Council operations in the non-national roads area |
Not submitted to ERCSC |
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Non-national road pavement condition study |
Not submitted to ERCSC |
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Reviews in 2002-2004 phase |
Rollover |
Exchequer Financed Water and Sewerage Schemes |
Completed (No. 65) |
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Rollover |
Voluntary Housing |
Completed (No. 70) |
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2003/4 |
Motor tax on line initiative |
For completion 2004 |
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Finance |
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Reviews completed in earlier phase |
Annual Grant-In-Aid to the Economic and Social Research Institute |
(No. 1) |
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Reviews in 2002-2004 phase |
2002 |
Payments to Promoters of Certain Charities |
Completed (No.78) |
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2002 |
Change Management Fund |
For completion 2004 |
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2003/4 |
Institute of Public Administration |
For completion 2004 |
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2003/4 |
Information Society |
To commence 2004 |
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2003/4 |
Consultancies |
To commence 2004 |
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2003/4 |
Economic and Social Research Institute |
To commence 2004 |
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2003/4 |
Ordnance Survey Ireland |
To commence 2004 |
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Department of Foreign Affairs |
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Reviews completed in earlier phase |
Management of Embassy Properties Abroad |
(No. 5) |
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Irish Aid to Ethiopia |
(No. 6) |
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EU Programme for Peace and Reconciliation |
(No. 21) |
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Reaching Out to Communities: Area Based Programmes, 1994-2000 (Ireland Aid) |
Not submitted to ERCSC |
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Reviews in 2002-2004 phase |
2002 |
Synthesis Report on the Expenditure Review of the Development Cooperation Ireland In-Country Micro Projects Scheme |
Completed (No. 71) |
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2002 |
Public Expenditure Review Report on the Inhambane Provincial Development Programme (Mozambique) |
Completed (No. 72) |
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2002 |
Cultural Relations |
Quality Assessed |
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2003/4 |
Assistance to Eastern Europe |
Quality Assessed |
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2003/4 |
Evaluation of Ireland Aid support for Basic Education in Uganda and Zambia |
For completion end 2004 |
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2003/4 |
Evaluation of Ireland Aid’s emergency humanitarian assistance in a selected country (Afghanistan) |
For completion end 2004 |
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Health & Children |
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Reviews completed in earlier phase |
Intellectual Disability Programme |
(No. 29) |
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Dental Treatment Service Schemes |
(No. 30) |
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Nursing Home Subvention Scheme |
(No. 51) |
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Reviews in 2002-2004 phase |
The ERCSC has accepted that the Department of Health & Children is not in a position to engage in the ERI in 2004 due to the extensive programme of reform it is undergoing at present |
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Justice, Equality & Law Reform |
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Reviews completed in earlier phase |
Garda Overtime |
(No. 16) |
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Garda Compensation Scheme |
(No. 17) |
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Transportation of Prisoners |
(No. 18) |
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Probation and Welfare Service — Grants to Voluntary Bodies |
(No. 53) |
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Legal Aid Board |
(No. 54) |
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Compensation Scheme for Personal Injuries Criminally Inflicted |
(No. 59) |
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Reviews in 2002 — 2004 phase |
2002 |
Prisons healthcare review |
At Quality Assessment |
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2003/4 |
Maintenance of Garda premises |
Terms of ref. to be agreed |
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2003/4 |
Asylum/immigration |
Terms of ref. to be agreed |
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2003/4 |
Prisons capital projects |
Terms of ref. to be agreed |
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Office of Public Works |
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Reviews completed in earlier phase |
Review of Property Management in OPW |
(No. 4) |
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OPW Arterial Drainage Maintenance Programme — Report on measurement of return on investment |
(No. 43) |
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Government Supplies Agency and Furniture Branch |
Not submitted to ERCSC |
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Plan for the continuing development of Dublin Zoo, 2001-2005 |
Not submitted to ERCSC |
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Reviews in 2002-2004 phase |
The ERCSC has accepted that the OPW is not in a position to engage in the ERI in 2004 due to the demands of decentralization. |
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Oireachtas |
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Reviews completed in earlier phase |
N.A. |
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Reviews in 2002-2004 phase |
Rollover |
Parliamentary Information Programme Phase1 |
Quality Assessed |
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2003/4 |
Parliamentary Information Programme Phase II |
Review has commenced. |
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Revenue Commissioners |
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Reviews completed in earlier phase |
Revenue’s Training Programme |
(No. 46) |
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Reviews in 2002-2004 phase |
2003/4 |
Use of outsourced service providers to support returns processing |
To commence mid-2004 |
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Social & Family Affairs |
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Reviews completed in earlier phase |
Schemes for Locally-Based Women’s Group and for Locally-Based Men’s Group |
(No. 7) |
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Family and Community Resource Centre Programme |
(No. 8) |
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National and Smokeless Fuel Schemes |
(No. 9) |
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Review of the Carers’ Allowance |
(No. 10) |
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Review of Credited Contributions |
(No. 23) |
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Actuarial Review of Social Welfare Pensions (IPT Ltd.); Securing Retirement Income — National Pensions Policy Initiative Report of The Pensions Board |
(No. 24) |
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The Disincentive Effects of Secondary Benefits |
(No. 28) |
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Back to Work Allowance Scheme |
(No. 36) |
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Treatment of Married, Cohabiting and One-Parent Families under the Tax and Social Welfare Codes-Working Group Report |
(No. 38) |
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INDECON Report on Back to Work Allowance and Area Allowance (Enterprise) Schemes |
(No. 41) |
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Review of the Free Schemes operated by the Department of Social, Community and Family Affairs |
(No. 42) |
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Review of the One-Parent Family Payment |
(No. 44) |
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Review of the Qualifying Conditions for the Old Age (Contributory) and Retirement Pension |
(No. 50) |
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Reviews in 2002-2004 phase |
Rollover |
Urban & Gaeltacht School meals |
Completed (No. 66) |
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Rollover |
Review of Social Welfare Payments to Orphans |
Completed (No. 67) |
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Rollover |
Back to School Footwear and Clothing Allowance |
Completed (No. 80) |
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2003/4 Rollover |
Report of the Working Group on the Review of the Illness and Disability Payment Schemes |
Completed (No. 73) |
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2003/4 Rollover |
Supplementary Welfare Allowance |
For completion 2004 |
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2003/4 |
Qualifying conditions for OACP/RP Phase 2 |
For completion 2004 |
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2003/4 |
Back to Education Allowance |
For completion 2004 |
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2003/4 |
Unemployment Benefit/Assistance for atypical workers |
For completion 2004/5 |
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Taoiseach |
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Reviews completed in earlier phase |
Partnership at Work in Ireland: An Evaluation of Progress under Partnership 2000 |
(No. 47) |
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Reviews in 2002-2004 phase |
Rollover |
NESC/NESF/NESDO Rescheduled. Legislation to establish NESDO not yet enacted. Review not now likely to commence until late in 2004 |
See previous column |
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Transport |
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Reviews completed in earlier phase |
Operational Programme for Transport — Mid-Term Evaluation |
(No. 2) |
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CIE subvention |
(No. 25) |
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National Road Maintenance |
(No. 39) |
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Reviews in 2002 -2004 phase |
2002 |
Airports Public Service Obligation |
Completed (No. 74) |
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CDR |
Road Safety (CDR leader) |
To be completed ’04 |
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Attorney General’s Office |
2003/4 |
Law Reform Commission |
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2003/4 |
Attorney General’s Scheme (jointly with Chief State Solicitor’s Office) |
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Central Statistics Office |
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Reviews completed in earlier phase |
Macro-economic Statistics |
(No. 32) |
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Reviews in 2002-2004 phase |
2003/4 |
Social & Demographic Statistics Programme |
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2003/4 |
Business Statistics Programme |
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Chief State Solicitor’s Office |
2003/4 |
Use of Stenographers |
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2003/4 |
Attorney General’s Scheme (jointly with Attorney General’s Office) |
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2003/4 |
Costs Recovery |
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Civil Service & Local Appointments Commission |
2003/4 |
Support services for a specific initiative (agreed with Recruitment Unit, Dept of Finance) |
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Comptroller & Auditor General |
2003/4 |
Contracting out of audits to private sector accountancy firms |
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Director of Public Prosecution |
2003/4 |
Bail applications before the High Court |
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Land Registry |
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National Gallery |
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Ombudsman’s Office |
2003/4 |
Public awareness & publicity initiatives |
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State Laboratory |
2003/4 |
Capacity of IT to deliver efficiencies |
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Valuation Office |
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Reviews completed in earlier phase |
Valuation Office |
(No. 31) |
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Reviews in 2002-2004 phase |
2003/4 |
Rating valuation services to local authorities & ratepayers |
Completed (No. 77) |
Total Completed Reviews as of 30 September 2004: 93.