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Parliamentary Questions Data

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 12 December 2018

Wednesday, 12 December 2018

Questions (69)

Catherine Murphy

Question:

69. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the number of parliamentary questions his Department has processed in the past three years to date; the number of questions answered directly; the number of questions referred to bodies or agencies under the aegis of his Department for direct reply; the number of staff who are assigned to his parliamentary questions section; and if non-departmental staff, advisers and-or public affairs and relations companies have composed parliamentary question replies or had an act or hand in forming parliamentary question replies in the timeframe specified. [52241/18]

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The number of Parliamentary Questions which have been processed by my Department is 2,814 in 2016, 3,898 in 2017 and 3,316  to date in 2018.  Accounting for transfers, disallowances and withdrawals of PQs, the following are the statistics for answered PQs: 2,528 in 2016; 3,434 in 2017; and 2,798 in 2018 (as of 6th December). 

The Department does not refer PQs to Bodies or Agencies under our Aegis; in practice where a PQ response requires input from a Body under the Aegis, their input is sought and information in the Department's overall response is included for the relevant Body.  This occurs either centrally in Corporate Affairs or at a Division level, depending on the nature of the question.

Currently there are three members of staff who are assigned to the administrative processing of Parliamentary Questions (amongst other duties), 1 HEO and 1 EO (FTE 80%) in the Parliamentary Questions Section and 1 CO in the Minister's Office.

Advisers to the Minister assist in the checking and processing of parliamentary questions as part of their normal duties.

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