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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Equipment (5 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The numbers of mobile phones issued to staff in my department in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by my Department on handsets and phones bills over the same timeframe are as follows: - 2022 2023 2024 Number of mobile phone issued to staff 68 112 56 Total costs expended on...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (5 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy for his question. As he may be aware, my Department 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....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ethics in Public Office (5 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy points out, we made a commitment in the 2020 Programme for Government to ‘reform and consolidate the Ethics in Public Office legislation’ and I am happy to inform the House that we have been able to make very significant progress on this agenda. To prepare the ground for this, my Department carried out a comprehensive review of the current legislative framework...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (24 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: In total, the Public Service Agreement 2024 – 2026 provides for increases of 10.25% over a two and a half year period. In relation to the pay adjustments, the key parameters and percentage increases provided for are: Seven general round increases totalling 9.25%, four of which have minimum increases attached; and A provision for a Local Bargaining mechanism equivalent to 1% of the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Living Wage (23 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The current living wage, as set out by the Living Wage Technical Group, is €14.75 per hour. In relation to the civil service, for which my Department holds detailed data, €14.75 based on the civil service 35 hour standard net working week equates to an annual salary of approximately €26,938. Detailed data on civil service staff indicates that less than 0.02% of staff in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (23 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: While my Department has responsibility for setting the terms and conditions of various leave types for civil servants, it is a matter for individual employers to implement the provisions of the relevant circulars/policies accordingly. As outlined in , Civil Servants who avail of a Career break are required to comply with sections 31-34 when returning from a Career Break. In particular...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (23 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The National Development Plan 2021-30 (NDP) setting out €165 billion of capital investment was published in 2021. Following the conclusion of more than 30 bilateral meetings which took place from January to March this year with my Ministerial colleagues, the distribution of an additional €2.25 billion from windfall corporate receipts for the period 2024-26 was agreed by...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Data Protection (22 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Standards in Public Office Commission is independent in its function and neither I nor my officials have met with the commissioners or senior staff of the Standards In Public Office Commission to discuss the matters raised in this Parliamentary Question.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Projects (22 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: 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 allocations agreed under the National Development Plan (NDP),...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Regional Assemblies (22 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Balanced regional development is a key priority of this Government and this priority is at the heart of Project Ireland 2040. This strategic plan includes the National Planning Framework (NPF), which sets the overarching spatial strategy for the next twenty years, along with the revised National Development Plan 2021-30 (NDP) which was published in 2021. Over the lifetime of the NDP, this...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Regional Development (22 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 270 and 273 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, within the allocations agreed under the National...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (22 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department plays a key role in developing and monitoring capital expenditure in line with Government objectives and agreed fiscal policy. Managing the delivery of public services within budgetary allocations is a key responsibility of each Minister and their Department. My Department is in regular communication with all Departments to ensure expenditure is managed within the overall fiscal...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Regional Development (22 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: To reference countries’ regions for statistical purposes, the EU has developed a classification known as NUTS (Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics). NUTS divides each EU Member State into 3 levels: NUTS 1: major socio-economic regions NUTS 2: basic regions (for regional policies) NUTS 3: small regions (for specific diagnoses) The Irish NUTS 3 regions comprise the eight...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (22 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Appointments to the civil service through open competition are made subject to the advertised terms of the competition. In general, the terms allow that different conditions may apply to currently serving civil/public servants. There are policies in place which allow currently serving civil/public servants to start above the minimum subject to certain conditions. Examples of such policies...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Social Enterprise Sector (17 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to advise the Deputy that no funding was allocated to any social enterprise organisations or bodies by my Department from 2021 to 2024.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy for raising an issue I know he has a long-standing interest in. I have constituents who have difficulties similar to those the Deputy referred to. We come across them during our public work. Their loans have been sold and are now owned by a fund or entity which they feel is adding to the challenges they face. The licensing of those funds and organisations is handled...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I am sorry to hear about the plight they are facing at this stage of their lives, not having a home, not knowing whether they will have a roof over their heads. I can only imagine the difficulty they are facing at the moment. Please allow me to reiterate what we are doing. We are doing two things. First, this is why so much effort is being put into building public and social housing...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: ----- to try to support people who are at risk of becoming homeless. It is also why the housing assistance payment, HAP, is available-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: -----to provide support. The Deputy is against the HAP anyway. That is my understanding.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: On one hand, Deputy Boyd Barrett-----