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Departmental Funding

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 3 July 2012

Tuesday, 3 July 2012

Ceisteanna (680, 681)

Paudie Coffey

Ceist:

697 Deputy Paudie Coffey asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the number of persons, non-governmental organisations and quangos, that receive remuneration from his Department by way of wages, salaries, pensions, grants and other departmental funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31871/12]

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Paudie Coffey

Ceist:

698 Deputy Paudie Coffey asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list in tabular form of every quango and non-governmental organisation that received any moneys from his Department in 2009, 2010 and 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31889/12]

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Freagraí scríofa

I propose to take Questions Nos. 697 and 698 together.

The expenditure allocations and provisional expenditure outturns for my Department are set out in the Revised Estimates for Public Services for the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. The audited outturn figures are set out in the Annual Appropriation Accounts published by the Comptroller and Auditor General. These are a matter of public record and set out the funding for the Department's agencies.

The details of funding provided by the agencies under the aegis of the Department to a multitude of small diverse businesses and organisations is a matter for the agencies themselves and these can be made available from the agencies should the Deputy require. In the case of the sports capital programme, full details of individual grants to sporting organisations are available from my Department's website http://www.transport.ie/sport/projectsandprogrammes.aspx. In the case of funding grants made by the National Sustainable Transport Office to local authorities and others for the development of smarter travel infrastructure, details of projects/recipients funded under the Demonstration Projects, 2011 Jobs Initiative Scheme and the new programmes introduced this year — Smarter Travel Areas, National Cycle Network and Active Travel Towns — are publicly available on the Department’s smarter travel website, http://www.smartertravel.ie.

The Revised Estimates Volumes referred to above contain some overview information on staff numbers and pay for the Department as a whole and the individual sectors for which it has responsibility. The Department pays wages and salaries directly to staff members only. At end of May, 2012, the Department employed 494 staff members. Civil service pensions are paid centrally by the Paymaster General from a central provision for Superannuation and Retired Allowances rather than from the funds allocated to individual Departments and Offices.

The number of staff to whom wages, salaries and pensions are paid by individual agencies using funds provided by the Department can be obtained from the agencies should the Deputy require.

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