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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (21 Feb 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to advise the Deputy that there are currently 12 staff working in communications roles in my Department: 1 Principal Officer; 1 Press and Information Officer; 3 Assistant Principals; 2 Higher Executive Officers; 1 Administrative Officer; 3 Executive Officers; 1 Clerical Officer. The salary costs of staff in communications roles in my Department in 2022 was €613,895. The costs...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (21 Feb 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy may be aware, my Department previously provided grant funding to Benefacts between the period 2015-2022. The project was funded as a pathfinder initiative in the area of data analytics on the non-profit sector. Benefacts was initially co-funded with philanthropy, however, in recent years the Department had been providing the majority of funding to the entity. In 2019, the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ukraine War (21 Feb 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: Since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia’s armed forces, Ireland has welcomed over 68,000 Ukrainian people who have fled the war in their country. The Government has provided key humanitarian supports for people arriving in Ireland from Ukraine. These supports have ranged from the provision of accommodation, social protection supports, education and supports for community response. ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Legal Cases (21 Feb 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to advise the Deputy that no discrimination cases were taken and won against my Department over the past ten years.

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I will make my point as briefly as I can. I have heard the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Minister, Deputy Ryan, describe the forces that at the moment are changing our world, changing Europe and Ireland and changing the lives of the tens of thousands of people who have come to our country. Sometimes, when I try to interpret what that change means, it is those glimpses that I see in...

Estimates for Public Services 2023 (15 Feb 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I move the following Revised Estimates and Further Revised Estimates: Vote 12 — Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised Estimate) That a sum not exceeding €306,765,000 be granted to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of December, 2023, for pensions, superannuation, occupational injuries, and additional and other...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (15 Feb 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The Riverine Project is funded under the Shared Spaces and Services theme of the PEACE IV programme, the project is intended to create a shared community space between Lifford in County Donegal and Strabane in County Tyrone. A footbridge across the River Foyle would connect a community building and recreational parkland in Lifford with parkland in Strabane. The project was issued with a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Pensions (15 Feb 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy may be aware, it was agreed under a Vhi policy introduced in 2009 that increases in pensions and preserved pensions granted would be based on the level of increases in the consumer price index (“CPI”) up to a maximum of 2%. These increases may be granted at the discretion of the company, and are subject to approval of the Minister for Health with the concurrence of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Education and Training Boards (14 Feb 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 201, 210, 211 and 214 together. The terms and conditions of Adult Education Tutors employed by Education and Training Boards are a matter in the first instance for both the Department of Education and the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. The particular matters raised in the proposals are complex and raise...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Schemes (14 Feb 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to advise the Deputy that no compensation schemes or redress schemes have been put in place by my Department since its establishment in 2011.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Care of the Elderly (14 Feb 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government has no plans at this point to establish an ombudsman for older persons. However, it would fall to the relevant Minister with responsibility for policy regarding older persons to consider and to bring forward such a proposal. I would also like to highlight to the Deputy that older persons are entitled to use the services of all existing Ombudsman offices for any complaint...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (14 Feb 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The capital budget allocations for the Office of Public Works as published in the National Development Plan 2021-2030 for the years 2021-2023 are as follows: 2021 2022 2023 €206m €270m €270m The associated gross capital spend for the Office of Public Works in the years 2021 and 2022 were as follows: ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas Members' Expenses (9 Feb 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 126 and 127 together. As the Deputy will be aware, payments to Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas are managed and administered by the Houses of the Oireachtas Service. There is ongoing engagement between my officials and the Houses of the Oireachtas Service on the matter of a security funding scheme.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Schemes (9 Feb 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: Queries in relation to the parameters of the Ukraine Enterprise Crisis scheme are in the first instance a matter for the Minister of Enterprise Trade and Employment. There continues to be ongoing engagement between officials in my Department and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment in relation to this scheme given the scale and complexities associated with it.