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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Private Partnerships (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to PPP stakeholders' calls for greater clarity on the way in which Eurostat classifies public private partnerships, in the wake of the publication in March of the Revised Manual on General Government and Debt (MGDD), the European PPP Expertise Centre (EPEC) and Eurostat have worked together over recent months to produce a practitioners' guide with a view to bringing...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (11 Oct 2016)

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 best value for money.  It would be a breach of the EU rules for a public body to favour or discriminate against particular candidates on grounds such as nationality, organisational size, etc. and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Functions (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to the Deputy's question the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has no responsibility in this matter. I understand that the information can be obtained by the Deputy directly from the Houses of the Oireachtas.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Institutes of Technology Funding (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy will appreciate that a very important consideration in considering the scope for independent borrowing by institutions in the higher education sector is whether that borrowing is  classified as falling within the General Government sector or not. At national level the CSO are responsible under EU regulation for ensuring that all units within the economy are...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Remuneration (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The severance value referred to by the Deputy relates to a case quoted in the report on severance payments in the public service published by the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) and recently reviewed by the PAC.  The value cited is the capital value assigned to an entitlement to retire early and an award of added pension years calculated by the C&AG's actuarial...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Levy (6 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The public service Pension-Related Deduction (PRD) is a key part of the set of reductions to public service pay and pensions provided for under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (FEMPI) Acts. I as Minister am required to review and report on the FEMPI legislation annually, and my most recent review was laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas on 29...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (6 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Funding for bodies from the Vote of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is voted by the Dáil through the annual estimates process. In accordance with the provisions of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform Circular 13/2014 - Management of and Accountability for Grants from Exchequer Funds, any amounts unexpended at year end are to be surrendered to the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures (5 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I am aware that the legal framework in some countries, notably the United States, provides monetary rewards in certain circumstances for whistle-blowers. In so far as this is intended to compensate for the likely financial losses that whistle-blowers face because of their disclosures, our legislation has a different emphasis. In the Protected Disclosures Act 2014, we have provided a range...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Retirements (5 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: In my response to question 27235/16 answered on 27 September, 2016, I provided the Deputy with the number of lump sums paid centrally to civil servants on retirement in 2013, 2014 and 2015, broken down by the bands requested by the Deputy, and the corresponding total value of lump sums paid centrally in each of those years. The details of lump sums which were not paid centrally are...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pensions Data (5 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Because of the manner in which data was recorded, I am not in a position to provide the information sought with respect to 2015 retirements. However, as a consequence of the transition of pension payrolls to the Payroll Shared Services Centre at the end of 2015, data with respect to 2016 retirements can be more readily interrogated. Accordingly, I can tell the Deputy that the average lump...

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Staff Remuneration (4 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I am not welching on any agreement. A process was put in place between the Department of Health and my Department and that process is being carried out. On the different points the Deputy puts to me and the effect of recruitment, my colleague, the Minister for Health, is best placed to comment on the effect of that campaign. I note, to emphasise the figures, that the number of nurses...

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Staff Remuneration (4 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: In respect of recruitment in the United Kingdom I understand 420 applications have been received for posts. That work is under way. In response to the Deputy’s first question about standing over this, I did not do this. This decision was taken in December 2010 when our country was facing gigantic economic difficulty. Now, because of the change in our circumstances, it has been...

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Staff Remuneration (4 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank Deputy Shortall for raising this matter, which I know to be of interest to many within the House. The issue, as the Deputy described, relates to the campaign by the INMO and other nursing unions, including the Psychiatric Nurses Association of Ireland and SIPTU nursing unions, aimed at restoring incremental credit for the 36-week clinical placement undertaken in the fourth and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Government Economic and Evaluation Service (4 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: In January 2016, it was agreed that the Department for Public Expenditure and Reform, in its remit as the lead Department for the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service (IGEES), would take the policy lead in bringing a more coherent, planned and informed approach to the application of Behavioural Insights/Economics in the Irish public service.  My Department is...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Semi-State Bodies Remuneration (4 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The Guidelines on Contracts, Remuneration and Other Conditions of Chief Executives and Senior Management of Commercial State Bodies issued in 2006 and recently updated in 2016 provide general guidance on remuneration and related terms and conditions of employment for newly appointed Chief Executives of commercial state bodies.  In this regard the position of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Data (4 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The table outlines the number of retired public sector employees who are in receipt of a public sector pension that have been re-employed either part time or full time, temporary or otherwise by my Department or by bodies under its aegis. Organisation Number Department of Public Expenditure and Reform 1 Public Appointments Service 94 The Office of Public Works 0 Institute of Public...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Nursing Staff Remuneration (4 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Incremental credit for the 36 week clinical placement undertaken by 4th Year Student Nurses was abolished by the then Government in December 2010 as part of a range of measures aimed at reducing the public service pay bill. In the context of the Lansdowne Road Agreement it was agreed between management and unions that the issue of the 36 week incremental credit would be examined in relation...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Nursing Staff Remuneration (4 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Incremental credit for the 36 week clinical placement undertaken by 4th Year Student Nurses was abolished by the then Government in December 2010 as part of a range of measures aimed at reducing the public service pay bill. In the context of the Lansdowne Road Agreement it was agreed between management and unions that the issue of the 36 week incremental credit would be examined in relation...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (4 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has not awarded any contracts to taxi companies since the formation of this Government.  The Office of Government Procurement, which is a division of the Department, puts frameworks agreements in place for use by other public service bodies but does not award contracts on behalf of any other body and can therefore only comment on its own...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Strategy Statements (4 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The development of a three-year Statement of Strategy is a requirement of every Government Department under the Public Service Management Act, 1997. Under this legislation, a new Statement of Strategy must be submitted to a Minister within six months of their appointment. Therefore, the process to develop a new Statement of Strategy is well underway in my Department.  This work...