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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Teachers' Remuneration (9 Jun 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The issue of addressing the difference in incremental salary scales between those public servants, including Teachers, who entered public service employment since 2011 and those who entered before that date was addressed with the relevant union interests under the provisions of the Haddington Road Agreement (HRA). Any further consideration of remuneration for any group of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Cross-Border Co-operation (8 Jun 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 361 and 365 together. My Department has joint responsibility with the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland for the Special EU Programmes Body which manages the EU funded PEACE and INTERREG cross-border programmes.  The two programmes will see investment of €551 million in Northern Ireland and the border region of Ireland over the period...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (8 Jun 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Same-sex married couples are afforded the same benefits, under the Civil Service Schemes and the Single Public Service Scheme, as married couples of the opposite sex. The Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 extended the benefits provided to spouses under pension schemes to civil partners and the Marriage Act 2015 gives effect to the referendum on...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Company Law (8 Jun 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Depending on the circumstances of the case, the directors of a company that is no longer on the register may be in a position to apply under companies legislation to have the company restored. This will enable them to deal with the assets on behalf of the company. In exceptional circumstances, where restoration is not permissible under companies legislation and evidence is provided...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (8 Jun 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: For the majority of public servants the issue of the difference in incremental salary scales between those public servants, who entered public service employment since 2011 and those who entered before that date was addressed with the relevant union interests under the provisions of the Haddington Road Agreement (HRA). There are, however,  a number of areas across...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (8 Jun 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Detailed costings of eliminating scale points for the public service would require collation and estimation on an individual sector level, based on detailed data on the position of staff on each salary scale across the public service for each individual grade.  This detailed data is only available to individual public service employers and is not available to my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ombudsman's Remit (8 Jun 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The Ombudsman Association is a professional association for ombudsmen and complaint handlers across Ireland and the UK, their staff and others interested in the work of independent complaint resolution. It is neither a complaint-handling nor an advice body, and cannot give the public any advice other than to signpost to an appropriate ombudsman or complaint handling scheme, where applicable....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Correspondence (8 Jun 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The system that records representations received by my Department does not differentiate between the type of requester. In order to identify Oireachtas Members my staff would have to spend a disproportionate amount of time analysing each individual representation to arrive at the figures you are seeking which I do not consider appropriate. By way of some assistance, the following table...

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I listened to Deputy Alan Kelly’s contribution. I want to speak about the public wage element and the consequences for civil and public service unions, their members and people working in services. I listened with great interest and care to what the Deputy had to say and was struck by his omission of any reference to the Lansdowne Road agreement. If it was at the start of his...

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to speak on this motion. I will pick up on a comment made by Deputy Kelly. When he pointed to the reality of Sinn Féin's participation in the Northern Ireland Executive and its association and support-----

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for that direction. I will indeed.

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: It is a fact that Sinn Féin has associated with political movements and parties across Europe that have inflicted damage on the conditions of workers, their levels of employment and their wages. Every time that any Member on the Government or Opposition benches draws attention to what the reality of Sinn Féin's policies would be if implemented elsewhere in Europe or, as it wants,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I would refer the Deputy to my answer of 19 May (PQ 10976/16), which sets out the Government's position.

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (31 May 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: -----the percentage increase was largest for those on low and middle incomes.

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (31 May 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Those on higher incomes received a lower percentage increase than those on low incomes.

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (31 May 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Deputy Cullinane's approach is clear. When I attempt to answer a question-----

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (31 May 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I do not want to do Deputy Howlin a disservice, but when I give Deputy Cullinane an answer that is different from what he wants, he does not want to hear it. I have already covered Deputy Howlin's question about pensions. I will not prejudge negotiations we might have in the future as to where benefits will go but we have an agreement in place until 2018. I have not set aside additional...

Other Questions: Lobbying Data (31 May 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The first two reporting deadlines for those who have lobbied designated public officials have now passed. Those who undertook any lobbying since 1 September 2015 were required to register and submit returns of their lobbying activity on the online register. I am very pleased with the level of compliance achieved in these initial return periods. There are currently more than 1,300...

Other Questions: Lobbying Data (31 May 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: My objective is to commence the review of the Act in September this year and to finalise it by February 2017. The reason we built in a review period was to deal with the kind of issues to which the Deputy referred.

Other Questions: Appointments to State Boards (31 May 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy may be aware, significant advances were made in this area in 2014 when a radically revised system for State board appointments was introduced with the following key principles at its core: the promotion of wider access to opportunities on State boards; the establishment of detailed and comprehensive criteria for those roles; and the introduction of transparent and rigorous...