Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 11 October 2011
75 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of jobs that have been lost here due to cuts in public services and the reduction in capital expenditure in 2011. [28884/11]
View answerAs set out in the Programme for Government and consistent with EU-IMF Programme the Government is committed to reducing public expenditure and tackling the budgetary deficit while seeking to protect frontline services. As part of this the Government is committed to reducing the overall size of the public service. Data on staffing number reductions is available on my Department's website.
It is a matter for local management to reorganise work, change methods of service delivery or redeploy staff to the most critical areas in order to ensure services are maintained in keeping with Government policy. The Public Service Agreement (Croke Park) is an important enabler of the Governments ambitious reform programme in this regard. The capital allocation for 2011 is €4.69 billion. This represents a reduction of €1.57 billion from the 2010 provisional outturn of expenditure of €6.26 billion. This lower figure reflects price reductions as much as volume effects. The exact impact of this on employment is difficult to assess.
