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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff (2 Mar 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: Is that the Deputy's response to the great housing crisis and difficulty we are in?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff (2 Mar 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I accept it is a rent level that would be unaffordable for many people. I accept that but it is affordable for some. People will either live in them or rent them. Any increase in housing, any new house or apartment built and provided to somebody, is progress. It is also the reason our level of social housing output, the level of new homes being built by our approved housing bodies and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff (2 Mar 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I accept we need to make progress in delivering even more homes. The Government is at pains to recognise that. However, in the Deputy's world view, there is no role for the private sector in delivering those homes. Homes built in this country by the private sector are built at a profit, and we need those homes to be built. We need a private sector that can build more homes, and in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Freedom of Information (2 Mar 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy. A review of the FOI legislation is currently taking place. This review will form the basis for any changes to the legislation that I expect the Government to bring forward later in the year. To answer the Deputy directly, given the confines of time, I expect it will be during this year that the review will conclude and I will be in a position to bring forward any...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Freedom of Information (2 Mar 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy is aware, my predecessor as Minister, Deputy Michael McGrath, published a comprehensive update regarding the work that is under way on the FOI legislation. The legislation is actively used at the moment. The annual volume of requests doubled between 2014 and 2019. The drop-off in the use of FOI legislation during the pandemic has now ceased and we are seeing a further upward...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Language (1 Mar 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: As the deputy is aware, the Irish Language Services Advisory Committee was established by the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media in June 2022 pursuant to section 18 of the Official Languages (Amendment) Act 2021. Since then, representatives from my Department and the Public Appointments Service have been actively participating in this Committee through attendance...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Mar 2023)

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, within the allocations agreed under the National Development Plan (NDP), rests with the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (1 Mar 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The National Development Plan 2021 – 2030 (NDP) published in October 2021 provides a detailed and positive vision for Ireland over the next 10 years, and delivers total public investment of €165 billion over the period 2021-2030. In 2023, over €12 billion will be made available from the Exchequer for investment in public capital projects, which will provide more...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan (2 Mar 2023)

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, within the allocations agreed under the National Development Plan (NDP), rests with the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: EU Funding (2 Mar 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 98 and 105 together. I thank the Deputy for his questions and for his ongoing interest in the PEACEPLUS programme. I am very pleased that this new cross-border EU programme is now on the cusp of opening. PEACEPLUS will succeed the outgoing INTERREG VA and PEACE IV EU programmes, supporting shared peace and prosperity across the programme area of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: EU Funding (2 Mar 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 102 and 109 together. 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 achievement of milestones and targets....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Procurement Contracts (2 Mar 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: Ireland’s National Action Plan on Green Public Procurement (GPP), ‘Green Tenders - An Action Plan on Green Public Procurement’, was published in 2012. ‘Green Tenders’ did not specifically outline targets for use of central purchasing arrangements, such as green framework agreements. The Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, as...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan (2 Mar 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery, and Reform I am responsible for setting the overall capital allocations across Departments.  Management and delivery of individual investment projects within the allocations agreed under the NDP is a key responsibility of every Department and Minister.  In response to the changed mandate for my Department in terms of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: EU Funding (2 Mar 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: Cohesion policy is the EU strategy to strengthen economic, social and territorial cohesion of Member States, through measures to reduce disparities in development between regions.  The European Commission classifies regions as Less Developed, Regions in Transition, or More Developed, based on GDP per head of population.  The Northern and Western Region is a Region in Transition with...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Lottery (2 Mar 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The use of expired unclaimed prize money from National Lottery ticket sales is set out in the licence to operate the National Lottery, which was won, following an open competition, by Premier Lotteries Ireland (PLI) in 2013. The Office of the Regulator of the National Lottery (ORNL) is an independent regulatory office established by statute. The role of the ORNL is set out in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Procurement Contracts (2 Mar 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The focus of the Procurement Reform Programme is to further develop the potential of strategic procurement, with an emphasis on sustainability and social considerations, public works reform and innovation. A review of the Capital Works Management Framework (CWMF) commenced in March 2019 to improve the delivery of construction projects in terms of quality, timely delivery and cost...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Staff (2 Mar 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The labour market has shown marked improvements in recent years, and this will continue with the Department of Finance forecasting employment growth of 1.2% this year. These tighter recruitment conditions have impacted on recruitment across all sectors of the economy. In parallel to these labour market developments, staff numbers in the public service have continued to grow over the last...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Parliamentary Party Allowances (2 Mar 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware from her previous enquiries to officials in my Department, provision for the Parliamentary Activities Allowance is made under the Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Act 1938 as amended, most recently by the Oireachtas (Ministerial & Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Act 2014.  The allowance is paid to the parliamentary leader of a qualifying...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan (2 Mar 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The National Development Plan 2021 – 2030 (NDP) published in October 2021 provides a detailed and positive vision for Ireland over the next 10 years, and delivers total public investment of €165 billion over the period 2021-2030. In 2023, over €12 billion will be made available from the Exchequer for investment in public capital projects, which will provide more...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan (2 Mar 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, I am responsible for setting the overall capital allocations across Departments. Management and delivery of individual investment projects within the allocations agreed under the NDP is a key responsibility of every Department and Minister. The National Development Plan 2021 – 2030 (NDP) published in October...