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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (24 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: My Department does not maintain a compulsory central register of the qualifications of staff, so it is not possible to provide all of the detailed information requested. However, in the following reply, I have sought to provide the Deputy with as much information as possible, including some wider background context. It is important to note that there is no one recognised EU Public...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (24 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: The information requested by the Deputy for my Department and the bodies under its aegis is set out in the table below. Public Body Formal Contract Management System Procurement Tracking Platform Centrally Monitored Independently Operated Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (24 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: My Department has not identified mandatory qualification requirements for public servants working in procurement roles across Government Departments and agencies. The Civil Service Competency Framework supports development of the relevant skills needed by civil and public servants, and further supports capability building for individuals across all roles responsible for delivering on...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (24 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: Each Accounting Officer is responsible for the monitoring of performance of public contracts under his or her remit and for ensuring that the public procurement function is efficiently and effectively discharged in line with standard accounting and procurement rules and procedures to deliver maximum value for money for the taxpayer. My department has responsibility for public...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (24 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: Since 2013 my department, through the OGP has liaised with a sample of public service bodies to gather data on procurement addressable expenditure from across the public service to support the provision of public procurement sourcing services and inform policy development in this area. This data was also used, on an aggregated basis, as the basis for the ‘Spend Data’ component...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Semi-State Bodies (24 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: I do not hold the primary Ministerial responsibility for the borrowing capacity for any of the Commercial Semi State Bodies (CSSBs) and I am therefore unable to provide the deputy with the information she has requested. It is usually a matter for the Government Department under whose aegis responsibility for individual CSSBs falls to respond to such enquiries. The Deputy might seek to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Reports (24 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: As the Deputy will be aware, the gov.ie website is the key source of information on government and public services. Initially launched in 2018 by my Department, it aims to provide a much better user experience by thematically presenting and simplifying information about our public services to ensure that they are not only easy to find, but also easy to follow and navigate. Gov.ie is a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Projects (24 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: Due to the nature of the role of my Department, it does not have any infrastructure projects being built or commissioned. As Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, I am responsible for setting the overall capital allocations across Departments and for monitoring monthly expenditure at Departmental level. The responsibility for the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Regional Assemblies (24 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: I can confirm to the Deputy that I received and reviewed a copy of the Briefing Note - Regional Infrastructure Priorities for the Northern and Western Region from the Director of the Northern and Western Regional Assembly. I would also like to remind the Deputy that the responsibility for the management and delivery of individual investment projects or sectoral policy strategies, within the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (19 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: A secondments provides opportunities for staff members to broaden their skills and continue their professional and personal development while retaining the right to return to their substantive or equivalent position in the sending organisation at the end of the secondment. It also provides an opportunity for the receiving organisation to fill a temporary position with both the receiving and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (19 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: The NSSO review has found that a number of civil service retirees who were both working on a reduced working hours basis and in receipt of pensionable allowances, were potentially underpaid. While a scoping exercise is underway, the review will not be grade specific and will focus solely on those individuals identified in this cohort of retirees. The NSSO is committed to ensuring...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (19 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Civil Service Blended Working Policy Framework provides an overarching framework to inform Civil Service organisations when developing their own blended working policies and other related initiatives. My Department’s own internal Blended Working Policy is fully aligned with that framework. Meeting the business needs of the Department in order to deliver efficient, high-quality...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of the Attorney General (18 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: We have committed in the Programme for Government to “update the Ethics in Public Office legislation”, which includes the Standards in Public Office Act 2001. This follows a wide-ranging review of the legislative framework that my Department undertook during the last Government, the Report and findings of which were published in February 2023. I am now moving to consider in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (18 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 53 to 62, inclusive, together. In relation to the review of CET and WHT, the NSSO review is ongoing. To date, this has identified a small number, approx. 30 cases, of retired senior Civil and Public Servants who are impacted by the late application of appropriate CET and WHT taxes. The individual liabilities range from a few hundred euro to approximately...

Presentation and Circulation of Revised and Second Further Revised Estimates: Motion (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: I move: That, notwithstanding Standing Order 222 of the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to Public Business or the Resolutions of the Dáil of 1st April, 2025 and 21st May, 2025, the following Revised Estimates and Second Further Revised Estimate for Public Services for the year ending 31st December, 2025, be presented to the Dáil and circulated to members on 17th...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: Public procurement is governed by EU legislation and national regulations with the aim of promoting an open, competitive and non-discriminatory public procurement regime that delivers the best value for money for the State. All Irish public bodies are obliged to spend or invest public funds with care, and to obtain optimal value for money in accordance with the Public Spending Code. The...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: Departments and Offices are permitted to carryover unspent capital, up to a maximum of 10 per cent of their Voted capital, into the following year. Statutory provision for capital carryover by way of "deferred surrender" to the Exchequer is made under Section 91 of the Finance Act 2004. Capital carryover is an important technical element of the multi-annual capital envelope system which...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: As part of the oversight and monitoring role of my Department, officials collate public service staffing data on a quarterly basis. The table below shows the total full-time equivalent (FTE) end-year numbers, as supplied to my Department by the relevant Departments, in this capacity. Growth in Public Service Numbers (FTE) by Sector2019-2024 ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Health Services (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service and Reform and Digitalisation works from the centre of Government to drive the delivery of better public services, living standards and infrastructure for the people of Ireland. As highlighted in my Department's Statement of Strategy (2023 to 2025), it aims to promote effective corporate governance and accountability...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: The NSSO review has identified that some members of the current and previous Governments and a number of serving office holders are impacted. I understand that the NSSO has commenced engagement with those impacted.