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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: My Department has responsibility for Civil Service workforce relations and HR policies, including policies related to equality, diversity and inclusion. The development and delivery of policies and programmes relating to disability inclusion is a key focus of the work of the EDI Policy Unit in the Department, in line with commitments under Better Public Services 2030. In 2022, the most...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: The information requested by the Deputy in respect of my Department is set out in the table below. Year Percentage of employees who disclosed a disability 2015 5.10% 2016 4.58% 2017 5.01% 2018 4.48% 2019 4.78% 2020 4.07% ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 644, 645, 646 and 647 together. I understand that the decision to cease the routine issue of paper payslips was made by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform early in the previous decade as part of the Public Service Reform Programme and a wider Government strategy to digitalise public services. Since its establishment in 2014, the NSSO has had...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Death Certificates (29 Apr 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 51(1)(b).

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Government Procurement (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Office of Government Procurement (OGP), a division of my department, is the national authority on public procurement, with responsibility for all procurement policy and legislation in the State. There is no ethical procurement policy for which the OGP is responsible. The OGP advice to all Public Bodies is that the 2014 Public Procurement Directives allow individual Contracting Authorities...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Policies (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: As I announced on 15 April last, I am undertaking a series of actions over the coming months to meet the Programme for Government's objective of accelerating the delivery of critical economic infrastructure. Part of the work plan will involve the creation of a new Accelerating Infrastructure Taskforce, which I will chair. The taskforce’s membership will comprise a small number of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Consultations (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: Work on the review of the National Development Plan is underway across Government to inform effective prioritisation of scarce resources in line with the ambition of the review to allocate funding towards the supporting infrastructure required to deliver 300,000 homes by 2030 and to boost our international competitiveness. As part of this review, a focused public consultation will take...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: As of 17th April 2025, there are 362 people on the panel for executive officer grade from the 2024 campaign. This number excludes assignments made to date.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: I wish to advise the Deputy that a deferred reply will be issued to her in respect of this Parliamentary Question, in line with Standing Order 51(1)(b).

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Policies (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: I wish to advise the Deputy that a deferred reply will be issued to her in respect of this Parliamentary Question, in line with Standing Order 51(1)(b).

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Information and Communications Technology (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO), a division in my Department, provides ICT services to the wider Department. I can confirm that all of the IT systems they provide have been made capable of utilising the síneadh fada as required.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Directives (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: My Department currently does not have any EU directives which are awaiting transposition.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: I am informed by Public Appointments Service (PAS) of the following Garda Síochána recruitment campaigns in the period in question. 2024 – Advertised 15/1/2024 Closed 8/2/2024 (all applications were received in this period)2025 – Advertised 6/2/2025 Closed 27/2/2025 (all applications were received in this month). There is a spreadsheet attached which details the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Communications (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: EU member states report on capital projects primarily through a combination of national reporting practices and mechanisms to comply with EU regulations and guidelines. Each EU member State has its own system for managing and reporting on their public investments, including capital projects. In regard to Ireland, substantial information on capital infrastructure projects is made available...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: Securing value for money is an ongoing priority for this Government and is at the heart of all decision making, at every stage of a policy, project or programme's lifecycle. Delivering value for money is about securing the efficient and effective use of public resources in the pursuit of better public services, living standards and infrastructure for the people of Ireland. It is not solely...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: 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 expenditure at Departmental level. The responsibility for the management and delivery of individual investment projects or sectoral policy strategies, within...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Spending Code (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: My Department is responsible for the Infrastructure Guidelines, which replaced the Public Spending Code (PSC) as of end 2023 in setting the value for money requirements and guidance for evaluating, planning and managing Exchequer-funded capital projects. Management and delivery of investment projects and public services within allocation and the national frameworks is a key responsibility of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: The tender for “ITC016F Multi Supplier Framework Agreement for the provision of Network & Firewall Products, Solutions, Ancillary Equipment and Associated Services” was advertised on the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) in October 2024 and was open to all resellers and manufacturers of Network and Firewall equipment that could meet the criteria set out in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Appointments (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: I am informed that publicjobs, who provide the mechanism for assessment of applicants for State Boards, and a body under the aegis of my department, agree the criteria for the appointment of State Board members with the relevant Minister before a campaign is run, and are influenced by the legislation governing the establishment of the State body. While no specific instruction has been...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Inquiries (10 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Single Public Service Pension Scheme is a statutory Public Service Career-Average Defined Benefit Pension Scheme, established on 1 January 2013 under the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012. It applies to all new entrant public servants. The claim referenced relates to a group of individuals who are not public servants and therefore have no access to...