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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Lansdowne Road Agreement (25 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (FEMPI) 2013 Act provided for a "grace period" by which the retired counterparts of public servants in grades affected by the 2013 pay cuts already receive pensions unaffected by those pay cuts. This means that persons retiring since 1 July 2013 from grades affected by the pay cuts on that date were awarded, and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Funding (20 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The issue of pension entitlements for Community Employment Scheme Supervisors and Assistant Supervisors was the subject of a Labour Court recommendation in 2008. The position is that although the employing bodies concerned are mainly funded by public expenditure programmes, the State does not have any role as an employer in this sector and the employees of such bodies are not...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (20 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 160 and 161 together. Overtime generally relates to the compensation for extra attendance beyond normal working hours but the term is not defined in the Haddington Road Agreement.However, Sections 2.13 to 2.15 of the Haddington Road Agreement cover the revised arrangements in relation to overtime. Under the terms of the Agreement there is no...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Relations Contracts Data (20 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to the Deputy's question, my Department has not engaged any outside public relations companies for the purposes of disseminating government policy.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (20 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table :- Year Gross Voted Capital Expenditure €,000 Capital as a % of GDP 2000 3,930,452 3.6% 2001 4,975,673 4.1% 2002 5,583,873 4.1% 2003 5,360,805 3.7% 2004 5,204,177 3.3% 2005 5,882,879 3.5% 2006 6,661,045 3.6% 2007 7,819,137 4.0% 2008 9,011,084 4.8% 2009 7,332,611 4.3% 2010 6,384,671 3.8% 2011...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2017 (20 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: As set out on page 36 of the Expenditure Report 2017, there is an estimated carryover impact into 2018 of approximately €½ billion arising from certain of the increases in Departmental expenditure included in the Budget Estimates for 2017. These estimates will be updated as the details in relation to implementation of Budget measures are further developed. The spending review,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Grades (20 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe:  The matter in question relates to issues concerning incremental credit in respect of the starting salaries of Veterinary Inspectors and Research Officers recruited from open competition and who were appointed after 23 December 2010 at the first point of their incremental salary pay scale. It is the position that the  matter will be...

Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (19 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: No provision was made in budget 2017 for additional pay restoration to public servants, beyond the commitments already entered into under the Lansdowne Road agreement. Budget 2017 allocated €290 million for the implementation of the agreement. An additional €10 million was allocated to the Department of Education and Skills for the implementation of a revised salary scale for...

Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (19 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Of course I recognise the right of any trade union to form a view on these matters and vote accordingly on any proposal that is put in front of members. However, in the Deputy's analysis she makes no reference to all of those unions that are inside the Lansdowne Road agreement. What about the 20 plus unions that are on side and the more than 250,000 civil and public servants they represent?...

Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (19 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy has no interest in asking about that.

Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (19 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Deputy Paul Murphy said in the House earlier that it is the right thing that strike action should take place.

Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (19 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I am responding to the question the Deputy put to me in respect of wage restoration. What is absent in any part of the view she has put forward today is a recognition that large numbers of civil and public servants are inside the Lansdowne Road agreement.

Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (19 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Of course the Deputy has no interest in acknowledging any kind of progress, just as she has no interest in recognising the huge amount of engagement that has taken place with the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland, the Garda Representative Association and the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors. That engagement will continue as we seek to put in place an agreement that is...

Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (19 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: With regard to current levels of investment, we are looking to do more than just keep up with demographics, particularly in education and health. One of the benefits of the new approach that has been adopted in how we class government expenditure is that we set aside the portion due for demographics. I have always acknowledged that we must hire a certain number of teachers just to maintain...

Other Questions: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (19 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: This has happened in the past according to submissions that Departments made to my Department. For example, the Department of Education and Skills would highlight what it believes to be the main educational priorities, and the same would happen for other Departments. We are looking to operate differently with this capital review process. My Department will outline our long-term...

Other Questions: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (19 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Yes, I have. In the Estimates process that we went through for the 2017 budget, I asked Departments to specify, where possible, over a three-year timeframe what would be their particular capital needs. Not all Departments were able to do it but most were and the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Bruton, put forward a view on the capital needs required for the third and fourth level...

Other Questions: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (19 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Yes. In trying to respond to the kind of issues referred to by the Deputy, we have already decided and made it clear to the relevant Minister, Deputy Coveney, that from the additional resources that we believe will be available to the country for the coming years, we will allocate a large portion to the Department dealing with housing. From the €5.3 billion that should be available...

Other Questions: Institutes of Technology Funding (19 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I agree with the Deputy. I hope we can reach a classification of the borrowing levels that will ensure this can be done in an affordable and sustainable way. I agree with the sentiments the Deputy has concluded with.

Other Questions: Brexit Issues (19 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I am a member of the Taoiseach's committee and attended a further meeting of it this morning along with the Minister of State in my Department, Deputy Eoghan Murphy. I anticipate that the committee will meet even more frequently in the coming weeks and months. At meetings of the committee, I am obliged to update the Taoiseach and other Ministers on work I am undertaking in respect of...

Other Questions: Brexit Issues (19 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Yes, they have in the context of discussions we had on the recent budget. In particular, I was approached by the Departments of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation and Agriculture, Food and the Marine. There was also a particular focus on Brexit by the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Bruton. Much of his focus was on the development of the third-level education sector here in the...