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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.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I want to be of help to the committee in pointing out that Oireachtas pensions are not paid for from Vote 12; they come from the Central Fund. What will be paid for here are the pensions of civil servants. On the two questions the Deputy put to me, I am not aware of the matter having been given consideration for many years and I have not considered it. Since I have not considered the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Social Media (8 Feb 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: 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: Ukraine War (8 Feb 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 117 and 122 together. Welcoming and providing humanitarian supports to refugees from Ukraine has been a key priority for Government. A range of supports have been put in place for those arriving in Ireland. Budget 2023 made provision for up to €2 billion in voted non-core expenditure to continue this response. In Budget 2023 initial Ukraine related...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (8 Feb 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy may be aware, I have overall policy responsibility in relation to public service occupational pension schemes payable to retired public servants. Since 6 April 1995, all newly-appointed public servants became fully insured under the Social Insurance System.  They pay Class A PRSI, which would entitle them to Social Insurance Benefits such as, maternity benefit, illness...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: European Union (8 Feb 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The National Recovery and Resilience Plan is funded under the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) with Ireland in line to receive €915 million in grants over the lifetime of the Facility.  The RRF is a performance-based instrument with payment contingent on the fulfilment of agreed milestones and targets.  Ireland’s Plan sets out sixteen investment...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Measures (8 Feb 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2021 is a Private Members Bill introduced by Deputy Mairéad Farrell and Deputy Sorcha Clarke on 28th September 2021.  I understand that it was considered at Second Stage in the Dáil on 3rd February 2022 and that a motion was passed on 9th February 2022 resolving that the Bill be deemed to be read nine months from that day. In relation...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Policies (8 Feb 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware, the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (DPENDPDR) sets overall capital expenditure ceilings for all spending Departments. Once these have been agreed by Government, it is a matter for individual Departments to prioritise projects within these ceilings. In this context, the Department of Health is responsible for the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (8 Feb 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to the Deputy's question I am not aware of the case concerning the former civil servant.  This is not a matter for my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: European Union (8 Feb 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 127 and 128 together. The geopolitical context has changed considerably since the adoption of the Regulation on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) in 2021.  Russia’s unprovoked military aggression on Ukraine has created huge challenges for the EU energy union, thereby aggravating the economic and social consequences of the COVID-19...

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...

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...

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: 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...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: Absolutely. Hear, hear.