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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (11 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: Contact details for the bodies under our aegis are as follows: Name of Body E-mail Address Phone line/numbers National Shared Services Office oireachtas@nsso.gov.ie +35317738887 State Lab SLOireachtasRequests@statelab.ie 01 505 7000 Public Appointments Service ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (11 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: I wish to advise the Deputy that neither my Department nor any of the bodies under its aegis had any capital projects of the nature specified.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (11 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department had no projects of the nature specified in the year in question. With regard to the bodies under the aegis of my Department, information is provided below in respect of two relevant projects in the Office of Public Works. Description of Contract (2023) Initial Price Final Price Athlone Garda Station:...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (11 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Single Public Service Pension Scheme is a statutory Public Service Career-Average Defined Benefit Pension Scheme. It was established on 1 January 2013 under the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012. The provisions of the Single Scheme are clearly set out in law and were enacted on 28 July 2012. All new-entrant public servants hired after 1 January 2013...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (11 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: As indicated in my previous response, while balanced regional development is a key priority of this Government and is at the heart of Project Ireland 2040, as Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitisation I am responsible for setting the overall capital allocations across Departments, including in the recent Budget, and for monitoring monthly...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (11 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: As indicated in my previous response, substantial information on capital infrastructure projects is made available to both Dáil Éireann and to the wider public. There is currently extensive reporting of capital projects in the financial statements of Government Departments and Offices as well as the annual reports and financial statements of bodies under their aegis. Government...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (11 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: I wish to advise the Deputy that a deferred reply will be issued to him in respect of this Parliamentary Question, in line with Standing Order 52(1)(b).

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: Deputy Neville is correct. We need to see a specific focus on basic, strategic infrastructure in the review of the national development plan. That is why the Government has set out prioritisation around transport, energy, water and housing in particular. I am familiar with Leixlip as it borders my constituency. Clearly the area has grown significantly, with infrastructure that was built...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (10 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: My Department has not employed any civil servants to carry out the duties of qualified architects or quantity surveyors during the years in question.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (10 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: As per Department of Finance letter of 10 December 2010, Government policy continues to be that starting pay on recruitment from open competition for all posts within the public service should be at the minimum of the relevant salary scale. All competition notices, advertisements and information booklets must specify that starting pay will be at the minimum of the scale. Such notices and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (10 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: I am informed by publicjobs, the centralised provider of recruitment and selection services in the civil and public service and a body under the aegis of my Department, that the latest open Executive Officer campaign was launched in June 2024. According to publicjobs, 812 applicants have been panelled to date for multiple locations, with 482 having been assigned already. A further 106 are...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Mining Industry (10 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment is responsible for the oversight and regulation of mineral exploration and mining activities in Ireland. Under the Minerals Development Acts, royalties from mineral extraction are negotiated on a case-by-case basis. The Minerals Development Act 1940 Section 26 (2) (c) provides that: “unless the Minister, with the concurrence...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (10 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: I am informed by the Public Appointment Service (PAS) that the AP 2024 competition was launched on the 4 October 2024, and the first panels were formed on the 15 April 2025. The assignment of candidates from these panels has commenced in recent weeks. The panels from this competition are expected to remain open until the 12 December 2025. AP 2024 Open ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (10 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 434, 435 and 437 together. As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform I am responsible for setting the overall capital allocations across Departments and for monitoring monthly expenditure at Departmental level. The responsibility for the management and delivery of individual investment projects or sectoral policy strategies, within the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (10 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Programme for Government sets out the clear ambition to prioritise the delivery of transformative, critical and growth-enhancing infrastructure over the next five years. To support these goals, Government has prioritised an early review of the National Development Plan, which is being led by my Department. From February, officials in my Department set about identifying the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Expenditure Reviews (29 May 2025)

Jack Chambers: I thank both Deputies. In response to Deputy Ó Cearúil, there will be significant private sector input into the work programme and the development of the reforms. We have six external experts on the accelerated infrastructure taskforce. That is to drive accountability and also an economy-wide engagement on how we can cut through unnecessary process delays and red tape which is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Expenditure Reviews (29 May 2025)

Jack Chambers: When one looks at the national planning framework and the strategic objectives that are set out there, balanced regional development is central. As part of the overall review of the national development plan, we are looking at critical, growth-enabling infrastructure priorities around the country and how we disburse the capital allocations. That will be really important in the separate work...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (29 May 2025)

Jack Chambers: I thank the Deputies for raising those issues. I am not going to get into the distribution of different projects or priorities today. I will say, however, that one of the areas of emphasis in the review of the national development plan is transport infrastructure. I am engaging with the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, on that. The focus is to identify what projects can be delivered. I know...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (29 May 2025)

Jack Chambers: I thank the Deputies for their respective contributions. On Deputy O'Rourke point on the need for much more additional headroom for Meath County Council, the new national planning framework provides additional headroom to local authorities to zone more land to drive increased housing supply. The current baseline position is not at all near what we require to deliver the quantum of housing...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Expenditure Reviews (29 May 2025)

Jack Chambers: I thank Deputy Ó Cearúil. In line with the commitments made in the programme for Government, I recently announced a series of actions to accelerate the delivery of strategic infrastructure in Ireland, including the creation of a new infrastructure division in my Department. Initially, the infrastructure division will focus on the preparation of a systematic, evidence-based...