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Departmental Staff Training

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 16 July 2013

Tuesday, 16 July 2013

Questions (968)

Mary Lou McDonald

Question:

968. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of all third level courses, training programmes and courses and accompanying cost for the 2012/13 academic year, 1 September 2012 to 30 June 2013, provided for employees of his Department. [34554/13]

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Details outlined in the following tables of Training Programmes and third level courses and costs for employees of Department for academic year 1 September 2012 to 30 June 2013. In addition, my Department incurred expenditure in this period in Health and Safety training to the sum of €22,440.56. A further sum of €17,424.40 was spent in the provision of Internal Audit Training courses. Some €68,476.74 was spent on IT training costs.

Costings for courses completed between 1 September 2012 and 30 June 2013

Course Type

Course Title

No. of Instances

Costs

Training Courses

Advanced QPCR training (3DAYS)

1

€10,100.00

-

Antibiotic Analysis Workshop

1

€2,120.00

-

Computer Access One Day

2

€700.00

-

COMPUTER EXCEL INTERMEDIATE

2

€700.00

-

COMPUTER EXCEL INTRO

4

€1,400.00

-

COMPUTER WORD INTRO

4

€1,400.00

-

CVRL Scientific Seminar

2

€567.50

-

Effective Meetings

2

€1,100.00

-

EFFECTIVE WRITING

1

€1,100.00

-

FARMED&WILD GAME SEMINAR

1

€240.00

-

Freedom of Information - IPA

6

€9,000.00

-

Fresenius Workshop

1

€975.00

-

Global food safety conference

1

€1,595.00

-

Internal Auditing Laboratories

2

€5,600.00

-

Interviewer Skills

1

€1,050.00

-

ISTA sampling workshop

1

€950.00

-

JAWS Computer Training

€190.00

-

Legal Services Short Courses

4

€1,190.00

-

Level 1 Management Training

8

€16,000.00

-

Level 2 Management

8

€18,304.00

-

Minute Taking

2

€550.00

-

Misc. Conference/Seminar

57

€30,945.45

-

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

2

€1,600.00

-

Negotiation Skills

4

€12,000.00

-

PG CERT IN VETERINARY HEALTH

1

€3,074.52

-

Project Management Course

1

€1,916.70

-

Reg assessment of HACCP in hort

3

€15,000.00

-

REPORT WRITING

2

€1,900.00

-

Retirement Planning Course

1

€1,321.37

-

Sustainable dairy sector works

1

€1,375.00

-

TIME MANAGEMENT

3

€2,705.00

-

Tree Health Seminar

1

€200.00

-

VPHIS SEMINAR

8

€2,460.00

-

Women & Progress to Senior Management

1

€2,160.00

Third Level

-

-

-

Certificate

Introduction to Health Science

1

€3,170.00

-

Public Management

1

€2,820.00

-

Certified Public Accountant

1

€740.00

-

Law

1

€880.00

-

FEI Preparatory course

1

€1,662.00

-

-

Diploma

Public Management

5

€14,460.00

-

HR Management

2

€1,500.00

-

Business Studies

1

€2,217.00

-

Law

3

€8,135.00

-

-

-

-

Degree

Arts in Humanities

2

€8,800.00

-

Social Science

1

€2,980.00

-

English and French

1

€2,500.00

-

Public Management

12

€ 38,676.00

-

Public Administration

1

€4,975.00

-

Business Studies

4

€9,665.00

-

Business Information Systems

1

€1,565.00

-

Spatial Information Management

1

€2,535.00

-

Information Technology and Computing

1

€2,820.00

-

Law

6

€19,163.00

-

Degree

1

€2,101.00

-

Natural Sciences

1

€2,820.00

-

Science (Rural Development)

1

€5,000.00

-

-

-

-

Masters

Communication

1

€2,820.00

-

Information & Library Studies

1

€3,440.00

-

Understanding Development

1

€2,820.00

-

Coaching Practitioner

1

€1,120.00

-

Master of Economic Science in Policy Analysis

1

€4,465.00

-

Public Management

1

€2,820.00

-

Business Management

1

€4,890.00

-

Business Administration

1

€5,000.00

-

Financial Management

2

€5,640.00

-

Agricultural Economics

3

€7,770.00

-

Food Regulatory Affairs

1

€3,523.00

-

Meat Science

1

€2,100.00

-

Food Safety Management

1

€3,600.00

-

Science

1

€2,250.00

-

Agricultural Science

1

€2,820.00

-

Rural Environmental Conservation Management ( RECM )

3

€7,000.00

-

Sustainable Agriculture & Rural Development

1

€2,500.00

-

Veterinary Epidemiology & Public Health

2

€7,836.00

-

Veterinary Medicine

1

€7,600.00

-

-

-

-

Doctorate

Veterinary Surveillance

1

€2,980.00

-

Governance

3

€30,000.00

-

Science

1

€1,135.00

-

Technology Adoption in Farming

1

4,900.00

-

Agricultural Economics

2

€8,080.00

-

-

-

-

Accompanying Costs

Facility Hire/Teas & Coffees

€29,142.00

-

-

-

-

-

Travel & Subsistence

€198,540.00

-

-

-

-

-

Total Expenditure

-

€645,464.54

Question No. 969 answered with Question No. 967.
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