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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Under the Lansdowne Road Agreement, agreement was reached between public service staff representatives and public service employers to extend the Public Service Stability Agreement 2013-2016 (Haddington Road Agreement). The Government strongly supports the Lansdowne Road Agreement which remains in place as the centrepiece of public service pay policy. The...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The OGP and its partner sector sourcing organisations in Health, Education, Local Government and Defence have enabled procurement savings estimated at €162m over 2013, 2014 and 2015.  The 2016 savings outturn has not been finalised but the target for 2016 was between €80 and €100 million.  Additional direct and indirect benefits attributable to the new model...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Semi-State Bodies Dividends (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The reason for dividends from commercial semi-State companies being behind profile by €304 million in the end-October Exchequer returns is due to a review of the timing of payment by Ervia, by way of special dividend, of the proceeds from the Bord Gais Energy sale transaction. A special dividend payment of €370 million by...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Expenditure (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Details of the annual cast cost of public service pensions in each of the years 2010 to 2017 are presented in the following table. Pension cost information (and information on pay and headcount) for past years is publicly available on my Department's website . The 2016 and 2017 Estimates provided in the table are as published in the Revised Estimates Volume 2016 and the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The following table outlines the Exchequer pay bill (gross and net) and compares these amounts with Exchequer tax revenue for the period 2005 to 2015. (€bn) 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Gross Pay 14.1 15.4 16.6 17.2 17.5 16.0 15.7 15.3 15.1 14.7 15.1 Net Pay 13.9 15.2 16.6 17.1 16.6 15.0 14.7 14.3 14.1 13.8 14.5 Tax Revenues 39.3 45.5 47.2 40.8 33.0 31.8...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Levy (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The public service Pension-Related Deduction (PRD) was introduced in March 2009 under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009. The Exchequer yield from PRD since its inception in 2009 up to 2015 is as follows: Year PRD Yield  2009 €837,419,000 2010 €948,605,000 2011 €960,224,000 2012 €934,739,000 2013...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Data (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: In relation to the Civil Service, my Department holds information on numbers employed by county and I will forward the details to the Deputy's office under separate cover. For the public service as a whole, individual level data - such as relating to location - is not held centrally by Department rather it resides as part of the individual employee data record held and maintained...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Data (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The following table presents data on full and part time workers in the Civil Service (including traditional part-time - i.e. 50% of full-time - and other work sharing patterns) from end 2006 to Q2, 2016. Data for the prison service, which is part of the Civil Service, is recorded separately as prison staff are predominantly full-time. The "other" category refers to a small...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Data (23 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Please see in the tables details of numbers of public servants by sector at end quarter 2,2016, and at end year for each of the years 2008 to 2015. This and other information concerning public service numbers, pay and pensions is available on the databank on my Department's website at . PUBLIC SERVICE NUMBERS BY SECTOR 2008 - Q2, 2016 SECTOR 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Q4 Q4 Q4 Q4 Q4 Civil...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Data (23 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy may be aware, following the onset of the economic and fiscal crisis in 2008, a moratorium on recruitment and promotion in the public service was introduced in 2009, and remained in force up until end 2014, which substantially restricted recruitment to the public service throughout that period in overall terms. However, a major priority for Government in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Lansdowne Road Agreement Implementation (23 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The Lansdowne Road Agreement extends the Public Services Stability Agreement to September 2018. The cost of the Agreement is €844m. Details of the measures contained in the Agreement are set out below:  2016 2017 2018 €267 m €290 m €287 m Pension Related Deduction (PRD): Exemption threshold changes as follows: - 2015 increase from...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Horse Racing Ireland Staff (23 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I refer to my replies to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 28045/16 of 3 October 2016 and 30936/16 of 19 October 2016.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Good Friday Agreement (23 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 131 and 132 together. Ireland and the UK are currently partners in three EU-funded cross-border Cooperation Programmes with a total value of €650 million over the period 2014-2020: - PEACE Programme - €269 million; - Ireland/Northern Ireland/Scotland INTERREG Programme - €282 million; - Ireland/Wales Programme - €99 million. These...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Lansdowne Road Agreement Implementation (23 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government is fully committed to implementing the Lansdowne Road Agreement and will continue, across the coming weeks, to work with all stakeholders to ensure the continuation of a collective pay policy framework that meets the needs of our public servants and safeguards our economy into the future.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Lansdowne Road Agreement Implementation (23 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The Lansdowne Road Agreeement is a Collective Agreement between the Government and public service employers with  the Public Services Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) and other associations representing public servants. There are well established formal and informal stuctures in place to address the implementation of the terms of the Agreement. Where...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies Establishment (23 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I have no plans for re-establishing an empoyer labour conference. However, the Labour Employer Economic Forum (LEEF) has been established and met on the 5th of October.  The meeting was chaired by An Taoiseach and attended by the sponsoring Ministers of Public Expenditure and Reform, Finance and Jobs Enterprise and Innovation with representatives of employers and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Social Partnership Meetings (23 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I have no plans for re-establishing social partnership or a renewed form of social dialogue at this time.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Meetings (23 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government strongly supports the Lansdowne Road Agreement as the centrepiece of public pay policy noting that the Labour Court's recommendation was explicitly made within that framework.  However, the wider implications of the recommendation in relation to the continued operation of the Lansdowne Road Agreement as it applies to all public servants across the public...

Topical Issue Debate: Citizens Assembly (22 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Very little of it.

Topical Issue Debate: Citizens Assembly (22 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I did my best to respond to the specific matters raised by Deputy McGrath, because I felt he was due an answer on the issues he raised about the assembly. As I stated, I will now ensure that the Deputy receives a response on the specific issue raised as opposed to the general matter of the criteria for consultation on Government-sponsored fora, which was the subject matter of this Topical...