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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Agencies Funding (20 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Institute of Public Administration has two main sources of funding, namely, earned fee income and a State block grant. The Institute’s earnings over the past five years were made up of training and international services, education-fee income, research income, publications, membership income, release of capital grants, and the grant allocation from my Department. The table...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Pay Commission (20 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Following publication of the Report by the Public Service Pay Commission, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and public service employers entered into negotiations with public service unions and staff representative associations in order to secure agreement on an extension of the Lansdowne Road Agreement.  Following detailed and complex negotiations, facilitated by the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Data (20 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 396 and 397 together. The proposed Agreement runs from 2018- 2020 and has a total cost over that period of €887 million, with annual costs as follows: 2018: €178 million 2019: €370 million 2020: €339 million The pay measures also have a carry-over cost into 2021 of €227 million. The costs of the proposed pension contribution...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Private Partnerships (20 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy will be aware that a mid-term review of the Capital Plan is currently underway, the findings of which will ultimately help Government to put in place a new long term Capital Plan which is consistent with the new National Planning Framework to be published later this year. In that context, Government needs to formulate a strategic view on the extent to which PPPs should be...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (20 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Public Service Pension Reduction (PSPR) reduces the value of those public service pensions which have pre-PSPR values above specified thresholds. It does so in a progressively structured way which has a proportionately greater effect on higher value pensions. A very significant part-unwinding of PSPR in three stages is taking place under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Register of Lobbyists Administration (20 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy is aware the Standards in Public Office Commission (the Standards Commission) is as an independent statutory body which is responsible for the Register of Lobbying. As an independent statutory body it is not accountable to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform or to the Government in the performance of its functions. I am advised that the Standards...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (20 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Public Procurement is governed by EU and National rules. The aim of these rules is to promote an open, competitive and non-discriminatory public procurement regime which delivers the best value for money. It would be a breach of the EU rules for a public body to favour particular candidates on grounds such as organisation size, locality, nationality, etc. and there are legal remedies which...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies Code of Conduct (20 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies applies to the Regulator of the National Lottery. The Regulator has furnished a report confirming that he complied with his  obligations under tax law for 2015. The Regulator has complied with his obligations under tax law for 2016 and this will be formally confirmed following completion of the audit of the Regulator’s...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Appointments to State Boards (20 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The boards of the Public Appointments Service (PAS) and the Institute of Public Administration (IPA) are the only State boards under the remit of my Department. No appointments were made to the PAS board in May or June 2017. There was one appointment made to the IPA board on 16 May 2017 in line with the Institute’s memorandum and articles of association. The...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Relocation (20 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to inform the Deputy that during the period from 2014 to date in 2017, in my Department there were seventeen staff who transferred to offices located outside the Dublin region. The information requested by the Deputy is laid out in the tables below. Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Core) Year Grade Region Relocation Cost 2014 Administrative Officer Limerick Nil...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: This is a Cabinet and a Taoiseach that will be working night and day, conscious of what needs to be done and what we need to achieve but also conscious of the journey that our country has made.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I begin by recognising the contribution and achievement of the former Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan. It is an honour to follow in his footsteps in leading the Department of Finance in addition to my current responsibilities at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. In the budget that I had the honour of introducing in the House with the former Minister, Deputy...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: He is not reciprocating. He is not responding.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: We are listening to the Deputy.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy is looking very beautiful.

Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: It is going to be challenging, because we have many different competing demands. We are working hard to see how we can identify new funding. We have already made progress on this by the identification of a further €2 billion between now and 2021 and 2022 and we are engaged in other pieces of work, for example, with the European Investment Bank, to see if there are additional ways of...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 12 and 13 together. The 10% reductions in starting pay for certain new entrants were introduced in January 2011 as part of the national recovery plan in order to reduce the public service pay bill by the then Government.  The issue of addressing the difference in incremental salary scales between those public servants who entered...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Let us talk about some figures amidst the Deputy's comments. From 1 January 2017, under the measures I agreed alongside the Minister for Education and Skills for INTO and TUI members, a new entrant will be paid a salary of €35,837. By 1 January 2018, when the second half of new entrant restoration has occurred, it will be considerably ahead of that. Amidst all the claims the Deputy...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: It is because the principle of fairness I must respond to is different from the one the Deputy is concerned with. I must be able to make sure I am fair to people who need services and to people who need housing and make sure we have the money available to build housing. The Deputy comes in here and deals with each issue in isolation. I must be able to deal with each matter collectively...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I am glad the Deputy acknowledged it there. If he can come up with a recipe for me as to how we can find €1.4 billion immediately while meeting all the other needs he raises with me on a regular basis, I look forward to hearing what that formula is. If he could also assure me it would not destroy the economy that produces all the tax to deliver the services we are talking about, I...