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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy. I will make a brief point in response to what she said about ELS. Such funding will still deliver decisions on budget day that are part of the budget day package. To give a concrete example, there are hiring decisions that need to happen in our public service due to demographics, including, for example, the number of teachers. That will lead to the announcement by the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I entirely take the Deputy's point. It is unlikely that the fund will keep on building. The reason I think that is the experience we have had with the Social Insurance Fund, SIF. Once we give a commitment that we are going to spend in a particular area, we honour our commitments even if the SIF goes into deficit. We honour those commitments by moving money into the SIF from general...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I will have to come back to the Deputy on that point. I accept it is an important matter. However, I will have to dig into it further and come back to her with the material relating to it. I am, of course, very happy to take her question and get back to her on it. That is separate to the SPU, which is why I cannot give her an answer this evening. However, I accept it is an important...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy for her questions. The Government has put in place an analysis of the impact of the different measures we have brought in and what they mean for disposable income. We have not been able to do that on a geographical basis. Instead, we have done it on income level. Very broadly, those who have the least have benefited the most because they need the most support. Just...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I cannot add to that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: We have made a decision to support the residency of those who come to our country fleeing a war. Having visited a number of centres in which these poor people are arriving in our country at the moment, I can assure the Deputy of our commitment to continue to do our best by them. The principle of the stability programme update, however, is that it is done on a no-policy-change basis, and we...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (27 Apr 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 216 and 218 together. Whilst travel for official duties is an integral part of the functions carried out by many civil and public servants, opportunities for online meetings should always be considered prior to any travel being undertaken. If travel is essential, public servants should always strive to use public transport in the first instance. The motor...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (27 Apr 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: Whilst travel for official duties is an integral part of the functions carried out by many civil and public servants, opportunities for online meetings should always be considered prior to any travel being undertaken. If travel is essential, public servants should always strive to use public transport in the first instance. Where an officer uses their own bicycle for official travel,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (27 Apr 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I take it that the Deputy is referring to the review and extension to the public service pay agreement Building Momentum that was brokered by the Workplace Relations Commission last August. The following pay adjustments were scheduled to apply during Building Momentum – A New Public Service Agreement 2021 – 2022:A general round increase in annualised basic salary for all public...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (27 Apr 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I and my Department are responsible for the civil service pension schemes, which cover members of established and unestablished civil service and State industrial schemes. The authorities responsible for the administration of the large number of pension schemes operating in the various sectors of the public service are, in general, the relevant employers and Ministers in those sectors. It...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (27 Apr 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: Cohesion policy is the European Union strategy to promote and support the overall harmonious development of Member States and regions by strengthening economic, social and territorial cohesion, through measures aimed at reducing disparities in the level of development between regions. The European Regional Development Programmes (ERDF) form part of those measures. In the development of the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (27 Apr 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: In 2021, my colleague, Simon Harris T.D., the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, published the Action Plan for Apprenticeships 2021-2025 with a suite of over 60 actions to drive the uptake of apprenticeships in the State. The Office of Government Procurement, an office in my Department, published the information note on Apprenticeships and Public...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (27 Apr 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The Capital Works Management Framework (CWMF) encapsulates all aspects of public works delivery from inception through to completion and review. It does this by means of a comprehensive suite of guidance, including best practice project management, cost control, design development as well as providing a suite of template tender documents and contracts. It was developed in 2007 in response...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (27 Apr 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 the level of development between regions. There was extensive engagement with the Northern Western Regional Assembly (NWRA) in the development of the 2021-2027 programme. My predecessor appointed the NWRA as the Managing Authority of the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Period Poverty (27 Apr 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: Period poverty is a priority for this Government, which has supported the roll-out of period dignity measures in Budgets 2022 and 2023. The Department of Health also chairs an inter-Departmental Period Poverty Implementation Group with representation from most Government Departments, to co-ordinate implementation of period dignity measures across Government. The funding of period poverty...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (27 Apr 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has no contracts in place with the organisation in question.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (25 Apr 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has not engaged the services or awarded any contracts to the organisation in question during the period specified. More generally, the Deputy may wish to note thatmy Department publishes on a regular basis a schedule which lists the details of the consultancy fees, professional fees, legal fees and advisory fees paid since the Department was...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (25 Apr 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department made one payment to one of the organisations that is a member of the Environmental Pillar during the period specified. My Department made a payment of €400 to VOICE (Voice of Irish Concern for the Environment) for their services in respect of a recycling workshop held in 2021. With the exception of the Office of Public Works (OPW), no payments have been made by the...

Social Welfare Regulations 2023: Motion (3 May 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I move: That Dáil Éireannapproves the following Regulations in draft: Social Welfare (Consolidated Claims, Payments and Control) (Amendment) (No. 2) (Qualifying Conditions) Regulations 2023, a copy of which was laid in draft form before Dáil Éireannon 3rd April, 2023.

Estimates for Public Services 2023 (3 May 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I move the following Revised Estimates: Vote 38 — Health (Further Revised Estimate) That a sum not exceeding €20,920,049,000 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 the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Health and certain other services administered by that Office,...