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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Sustainable Development Goals (18 May 2021)

Michael McGrath: Overall political oversight for national SDG implementation is provided through the Cabinet, with each Minister having specific responsibility for implementing individual SDG targets related to their Ministerial functions. The Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC) has responsibility for promoting the SDGs, and for overseeing their coherent implementation across...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Social Media (18 May 2021)

Michael McGrath: I propose to take Questions Nos. 324 and 325 together. I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department does not engage a third-party company for the purpose set out in the question.  Similarly, there are no officials in my Department tasked with monitoring social media. The staff of the Department's Press Office manage its Twitter and LinkedIn accounts by creating posts and sharing...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Investigations (18 May 2021)

Michael McGrath: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has not engaged any such services in the specified period.   This is also the case for all of the bodies under the aegis of my Department, with the exception of the Office of Public Works (OPW) as set out in the following link. Office of Public Works

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas Members' Expenses (18 May 2021)

Michael McGrath: I propose to take Questions Nos. 328 and 329 together. The Deputy will be aware that a particular operational aspect of the current system is under review by the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission namely the System for Recording Attendance (SRA) of Members of the Dáil and Seanad.  Following conclusion of that review and when the recommendations are fully embedded and impacts...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures (18 May 2021)

Michael McGrath: Directive (EU) 2019/1937 on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law ("the Whistleblowing Directive") was adopted in October 2019 and Ireland has until 17 December 2021 to transpose it into Irish law. Ireland already has comprehensive whistleblower protection legislation in place in the form of the Protected Disclosures Act 2014. Transposition of the Directive will require...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Data Protection (18 May 2021)

Michael McGrath: The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has a data breach management policy in place to ensure that any data breaches are dealt with as required under Articles 33-34 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).  In line with this policy, the Department identified and recorded twenty eight data breaches to date from 2016.  The breakdown by year...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Aviation Authority (18 May 2021)

Michael McGrath: I can confirm that the two submissions referred to by the Deputy were initially received by my Department from the Department of Transport on 11 December 2020 and 27 December 2020. As part of the deliberative process for these submissions officials of this Department have been engaging with their counterparts in the Department of Transport in relation to the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Social Media (18 May 2021)

Michael McGrath: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table. Social Media Platform Percentage of Irish Only Posts during specified period Percentage of Bilingual Posts during specified period Twitter 1.12% 3% LinkedIn - 3.5% My Department will continue to work...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Health Services Staff (19 May 2021)

Michael McGrath: Matters pertaining to organisations funded under Section 39 of the Health Act 2004 fall within the remit of my colleague the Minister for Health. Similarly, matters pertaining to organisations funded under Section 56 of the Child and Family Agency Act 2013 are for the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (19 May 2021)

Michael McGrath: The Office of Government Procurement (OGP) has, since April 2016 published a standard suite of contract templates. These templates are designed for above EU threshold tenders and are for use by Public Service Bodies (PSBs) for the procurement of low to medium risk commonly sourced goods and services. Due to the nature of cloud services, the provisions in the standard contract templates are...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: European Union (19 May 2021)

Michael McGrath: Work is well underway on preparing Ireland’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), which is required to access funding under the European Union’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the centrepiece of Next Generation EU, the Union’s €750 billion response to the COVID-19 pandemic. No decision has been made about redacting information under Article...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (20 May 2021)

Michael McGrath: I propose to take Questions Nos. 216 and 217 together. As the Deputy will be aware, movement through Civil Service Mobility for the grades of Clerical Officer and Executive Officer was temporarily placed on hold in March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. During this phase staff were still able to register their interest in Mobility however offers of Mobility under the scheme were placed on...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (20 May 2021)

Michael McGrath: The information requested by the Deputy for my Department and the bodies under the aegis of my Department is set out in the tables below. I would advise the Deputy that the Office of the National Lottery Regulator (ORNL) is a public service body and, as such, ORNL staff are public servants and not civil servants. In relation to my own Department, all posts filled through open and internal...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (20 May 2021)

Michael McGrath: I would refer the Deputy to my reply to Parliamentary Question 305 of 28 April 2021 in which I confirmed that I intend to fill the position of Secretary General in my Department via an open competition to be undertaken by the Top Level Appointments Committee (TLAC) with the assistance of the Public Appointments Service (PAS). TLAC operates under the Code of Practice issued by the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Cybersecurity Policy (20 May 2021)

Michael McGrath: My Department implements a security-by-design and defence-in-depth approach to cyber security. The Government’s services are still actively involved in managing and remediating the recent cyberattack on the HSE. Our technical staff continue to operate and monitor all relevant systems to the highest levels, and are closely engaged with experts in the OGCIO and the NCSC to ensure that we...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Data Protection (20 May 2021)

Michael McGrath: In relation to my Department, I wish to advise that ICT services are provided by the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO). The services provided by the OGCIO are compliant with GDPR. In reference to your question which points to in Article 29 of the GDPR in particular, I can assure you as a data processor OGCIO has taken all reasonable measures to prevent unauthorised...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Data Protection (20 May 2021)

Michael McGrath: 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 51B.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Health Service Executive (25 May 2021)

Michael McGrath: I wish to advise the Deputy that this is a matter for the Department of Health rather than my Department and should be the subject of a separate question in that regard.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Living Wage (25 May 2021)

Michael McGrath: It is important that Ireland’s statutory National Minimum Wage and the Living Wage concept are not confused. The Living Wage has no legislative basis and is therefore not a statutory entitlement. It currently stands at €12.30 per hour according to the Living Wage Technical Group document 2020. The National Minimum Wage is a statutory entitlement and has a legislative basis....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (25 May 2021)

Michael McGrath: The principle of abatement of a public service pension is longstanding within the rules of various public service pension schemes and abatement is an important aspect of the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012 (the Single Scheme Act). The policy rationale is to avoid a situation where individuals benefit from both a valuable public service pension and also a...