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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: We have laid that out until 2026. That is included. In terms of the non-windfall capital expenditure, it goes to €13.6 billion and then to €14.2 billion in 2026. If you add the windfall capital allocations for those two years to that, it takes us to a total figure of €14.35 billion, rising to €15.45 billion.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Could the Deputy explain the question to me again?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: It is laid out there. I have no doubt at all but that were we to try to meet the 5% spending rule for this year or next year, the Deputy would criticise us for trying to do that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: We have laid out-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: We have laid out clear reasons as to why the 5% spending rule needed to be changed or rather, not changed but why the rule is there and why we have been unable to meet it in recent years. We have also demonstrated our intent to try to move back to it. All of this will of course be up for revision when we put together the plan the Minister, Deputy McGrath, referred to a moment ago, when we...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Yes. In the budget, we will be able to lay out the detail of what is going where for the Department of housing and every other Department.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: We have some understanding of what the detail is going to be. We know where funding is going for this year for different levels below the overall heading of housing. As I said, I am happy to come back to the Deputy with a bit more detail on that. However, it is not yet fully confirmed regarding what, for example, will be going to acquisition and to construction for the simple reason that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I expect the private sector, with the momentum there at the moment, will be able to deliver a larger number of new homes in the time ahead. That should especially be the case if we begin to see an improvement in the interest rate environment across the next number of years and begin to see the issues that have been created by cost price inflation begin to moderate. That is a very reasonable...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: No, that has not been determined yet. The reason is the ESRI is doing a piece of work for the Government at the moment to give us some perspective on what housing output will be and what the need for homes will be across the coming years. Then the Government in its entirety will make a decision on revised housing targets for the next number of years. As part of that and coming out of it,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Out of that increase - I am just doing the maths - between 2025 and 2026, it is around a €600 million increase in core capital. It goes from €13.6 billion to €14.2 billion.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: It has.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (8 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The information requested by the Deputy in respect of my Department and the bodies under its aegis is set out in the table below. Public Body Number of Employees currently suspended on full pay pending disciplinary investigations Length of time under suspension Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform 0 Not...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Programmes (8 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) is a temporary instrument that is the centrepiece of NextGenerationEU - the EU’s plan to emerge stronger and more resilient from the coronavirus pandemic and build a greener, more digital and more resilient future. This instrument is outside of the multiannual financial framework. Through the Facility, the Commission raises funds by...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery (8 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I have contacted the Office of the Regulator of the National Lottery regarding your query on win rates of the National Lottery. The Regulator has informed me that, in relation to the odds of winning the National Lottery, the odds of winning the Lotto jackpot, which must be at least €2 million, are 1 in 10.7 million. Other National Lottery draw based games on sale offer players...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (2 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: In terms of speedy progress, I have identified two matters. The first one is our efforts to ensure that we have enough companies tendering for public service contracts so that we have an adequate level of competition within the tendering process to allow key projects to go ahead. The second relates to the continued challenges we have with cost-price inflation. We are not seeing the surges...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (2 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: There can be a number of factors behind a delay in a project. I highlighted to Deputy Durkan what in my experience are the two key reasons. I will make the general observation that there is always a demand for more projects to go ahead than there is funding available at any given time. All Ministers want to be in a position to spend more and to allow many more projects to go ahead that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (2 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy for this important question. In budget 2024, a sum of €4.5 billion was allocated for non-core issues. These are costs that are driven by external developments or additional EU-funded projects that had to be reflected in our expenditure ceiling. The allocation covered pressures such as our humanitarian response to the arrivals fleeing war in Ukraine, legacy Covid...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (2 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The stability programme update did not make reference to non-core expenditure. In one recent stability programme update we did make reference to non-core expenditure and in another we did not. The Government has not made a decision yet on whether there will be a concept of non-core spending used in budget 2025. I acknowledge the benefits of non-core expenditure, which I emphasised earlier,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (2 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy is aware of the value of the overall national development plan and the number of years over which the money will be spent, so I will not go into those facts and figures now. Rather, I will cut to the question he asked about national strategic outcome, NSO, 10. NSO 10 refers to access to quality childcare, education and health services and aims to ensure that the co-ordination...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (2 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy pointed out the important role special schools play with regard to the movement of pupils from primary to post-primary. I can absolutely assure him that in my engagement with the Minister, Deputy Foley, and the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, and formerly with her predecessor, Deputy Madigan, the importance of special schools is fully recognised by the Department of Education....