Lucinda Creighton
Question:305 Deputy Lucinda Creighton asked the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of money owed to private firms by his Department. [42265/10]
View answerThursday, 11 November 2010
Questions (305, 306, 307, 308)
Written answers
My Department's policy is to pay all suppliers as quickly as possible. This reflects not only the legal obligation to pay within 30 days and the additional administrative requirement arising from a Government Decision to make payments within 15 days of receipt of a valid invoice, but also recognises that it is important for suppliers to receive payments due without unnecessary delays.
My Department normally makes payments to suppliers several times a week. In the year to date, over 90% of payments have been made within the 15 day period, with the bulk of the remainder paid within the 30 day window.
Any invoices currently on hand that are due for payment to private firms have been received in the past few days and amount to less than €6,000. All of these amounts will be paid this week.
Lucinda Creighton
Question:306 Deputy Lucinda Creighton asked the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of external reports and reviews commissioned by his Department in 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010; if he will name each report and review; if he will outline the spending on external reports and reviews in each of those years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42280/10]
View answerDetails in relation to the external reports and reviews commissioned by my Department in the years 2008, 2009 and 2010 to date are set out in the table below.
For completeness, the Deputy should be aware that the details include expenditure incurred during the relevant timeframe by divisions that transferred to my Department in mid-2010 from the Department of Social Protection and the Department of Justice and Law Reform.
|
Report/Review |
Year Commissioned |
Expenditure (to date) |
|
€ |
||
|
Audit of Assessment Process under Funding Scheme for National Community & Voluntary Organisations |
2008 |
9,619 |
|
Quantifying the economic value of the non-profit sector in Ireland |
2008 |
17,000 |
|
Audit of contract awarded in respect of passenger ferry services to the Aran Islands |
2008 |
6,094 |
|
Employment Needs and Development Potential of Offshore Islands |
2008 |
48,824 |
|
Reports arising from analysis and measurement of poverty and deprivation in Ireland (3 year contract with ESRI). Specific reports to date included: — Monitoring Poverty Trends in Ireland 2004-2007: Key Issues for Children, People of Working Age and Older People (2009) — Financial Exclusion and Over-indebtedness in Ireland (2010) — Persistent Poverty (2010) |
2008-10 |
80,000 p.a. |
|
Traveller Interagency Strategy Report |
2008 |
30,855 |
|
Examination of harbour requirements for Small Ferries INTERREG Project |
2009 |
64,734 |
|
Funding review of development programme of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann |
2009 |
37,449 |
|
National Traveller Monitoring & Advisory Committee Report |
2009 |
690 |
|
Systems Audit of Rural Development Programme 2007-13 |
2010 |
Nil to date |
|
Formative Evaluation of Irish National Programme for 2010 European Year for combating Poverty and Social Exclusion |
2010 |
15,822 |
Lucinda Creighton
Question:307 Deputy Lucinda Creighton asked the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs the total capital spending allocated to his Department in 2010; the total allocated moneys spent; the allocated capital spending within his Department in 2010 for each project in tabular form; the amount allocated to each project; the amount spent to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42295/10]
View answerMy Department's capital allocation for 2010, as shown in the Further Revised Estimates, is €104.999m. Provisional spend to the end of October was approximately €75m. These figures are broken down in the table.
|
Programme Area |
2010 Allocation |
Provisional spend to 31/10/10 |
|
€m |
€m |
|
|
Developing Communities |
9.2 |
6.9 |
|
Tackling Drugs Misuse |
3.0 |
0.5 |
|
Rural Development |
49.9 |
36.0 |
|
Gaeltacht and Islands Development |
33.0 |
24.7 |
|
Promotion & Maintenance of Irish Language |
0.6 |
0.2 |
|
North-South Co-Operation |
8.7 |
6.4 |
|
Administration (office machinery/supplies and related services) |
0.6 |
0.2 |
|
Total |
105.0 |
74.9 |
Finally, the Deputy should note that I am expecting that the overall capital allocation for my Department will be spent by year-end.
Lucinda Creighton
Question:308 Deputy Lucinda Creighton asked the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount spent by his Department on public relations and advertising in the years 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42308/10]
View answerDetails in relation to direct expenditure by my Department on public relations and advertising in the years 2008, 2009 and 2010 to date is set out in the table below. For completeness, the Deputy should be aware that the details provided include expenditure incurred during the relevant timeframe by divisions that transferred to my Department in mid-2010 from the Department of Social Protection and the Department of Justice and Law Reform.
|
Year |
Amount spent on Public Relations |
Amount spent on Advertising |
|
€ |
€ |
|
|
2008 |
381,109 |
595,176 |
|
2009 |
4,652 |
44,908 |
|
2010 (to date) |
1,207 |
59,012 |
Key areas where expenditure was incurred included the following:
Funding for a television series and competition for schools organised in 2008 as part of a disability public awareness campaign;
Advertisements relating to the public consultation processes undertaken as part of the preparation of the National Drugs Strategy 2009-2016 and the 20-year Strategy for Irish;
Advertisements relating to the launches of phases one and two of the Equality for Women' measure of the National Women's Strategy 2007-2016;
A public invitation for applications for membership of the Ministerial Council on Integration;
Advertisements relating to the National Walks Scheme;
Advertisements relating to the promotion of the Traveller Interagency Strategy;
Public notices relating, inter alia, to applications/disbursements under the Dormant Accounts legislation;
Departmental entries in the State section (green pages) of the 2009, 2010 and 2011 Telephone Directories;
Payments to the Public Appointments Service for advertisements relating to certain competitions organised on behalf of my Department; and
Statutory notices published in Iris Oifigiúil.