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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flexible Work Practices (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy may be aware a blended working policy for staff in my Department was published on 31 August 2022. This policy provides for staff to work remotely for up to two days per week. Employees availing of blended working are provided with equipment as outlined in the policy document and there has been no changes to this policy since it's publication. Please see the link below to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware the Civil Service Mobility offers an opportunity for staff members to apply for Mobility (i.e. transfer) through a list-based and advertisement-based system. It is an open and transparent scheme offering equal opportunities for Mobility to all general service staff members. The List Based Mobility Scheme is open to permanent Civil Servants (Clerical Officer,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Business Supports (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: While matters relating to Foreign Direct Investment and enterprise support for indigenous industry are, in the first instance, for the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, balanced regional development is a key priority of this Government and is at the heart of Project Ireland 2040. We are continuing to deliver and improve infrastructure in all regions in areas such as...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 240 and 241 together. The Office of the Ombudsman that it consists of six separate statutory functions, funded via one vote. The statutory functions share office space, ICT staff and systems, legal and HR support as well as procurement and finance staff. This approach gives the Office functional independence across core work areas, but allows it to realise...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 242, 244 to 247, inclusive, and 251 together. My Department regularly reviews budgetary and expenditure monitoring processes to ensure the adequate tracking of Government spending and provides best practice guidance and approaches to assessing the impact of public expenditure investment. In implementing further reforms, my Department will look to build on...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Bodies (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I can confirm that significant achievements have been made right across Government Departments, Offices and Agencies in terms of reform and carrying out their functions, many of which involve front-line public service delivery. My Department published the Public Service Performance Report (available at gov.ie/en/publication/c5258-public-service-performance-repor t-2023/) last month. This is...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government committed €165 billion towards capital investment through the National Development Plan (NDP) 2021-30 published in 2021. An additional €2.25 billion from the windfall tax receipts was made available to capital expenditure over the period 2024-26 in the Summer Economic Statement (SES) last year. This was to facilitate the progression of important projects and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: There are no centralised forecasts of public service staffing over the period to 2030 conducted by my Department. Public service staffing is largely managed through a policy of delegated sanction, which been in place since 2015. Under this delegated sanction framework, Departments are permitted to fill vacancies through recruitment and/or promotion, in grades up to and including Principal...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Communications (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform does not operate a public helpline intended to answer general queries from the public. The department's press office is open to queries from the public but this is not a helpline. Two other areas within my department have a phone line which can be contacted by members of the public.The Open Data unit in my department operates a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Public expenditure management and achieving value for money, within agreed Ceilings voted by Dáil Éireann, is a key responsibility of every Department and Minister. Expenditure profiles for 2024 were completed by all Votes in February and submitted to my Department. Performance against these profiles is used in-year to monitor the expenditure position and details are published...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Apprenticeship Programmes (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Last year, the Office of Government Procurement (OGP) published an information note on Apprenticeships and Public Procurement which can be accessed via the below link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/8b008-apprenticeships-and-public-p rocurement/. This information note, developed in collaboration with the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, provides...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Equal Opportunities Employment (10 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Different bodies take different approaches to gathering the information sought by the Deputy. In many organisations disability surveys are anonymous, so it is not possible to say what type of contract staff are on. It is not mandatory for staff to disclose if they have a disability. The material below sets out the information that is available. Department of Public...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (10 Jul 2024)

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 2021-30 (NDP), rests with the individual...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Regional Development (10 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Balanced regional development is a key priority of this Government and is at the heart of Project Ireland 2040. We are continuing to deliver and improve infrastructure in all regions in areas such as transport, broadband connectivity, housing and energy. These investments in public infrastructure projects will in turn have a positive effect in delivering employment opportunities and further...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: NextGenerationEU is the EU’s temporary recovery instrument to support Europe’s economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and build a greener, more digital and more resilient future. The centrepiece of NextGenerationEU is the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) - an instrument that offers grants and loans to support reforms and investments in the EU Member States. RRF...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: When I appeared here in July, the Government had published the summer economic statement and we discussed the agreed budget parameters. Today I will brief the committee on developments since then that will affect the considerations being made as part of the budgetary negotiation process ahead of budget day on 1 October. While budget 2024 was framed in the context of the cost-of-living...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The €14.5 billion does not include the allocation of any additional money that could come from the sale of bank shares, either in the future or what has already happened. I am as aware as Deputy Doherty of the pressures that our country faces in the building of more homes. I do not accept that our plan is failing. If I look at the number of new homes that have been built, the number...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I will kick off very quickly. On Deputy Durkan's point about the importance of looking after the Single Market, I think we all agree with that on this side of the table. On the national development plan, trying to ensure that the money available leads to homes and improvements in our capital and economy and all of that happening quicker, we are making efforts to do that. I fully accept...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: In the annex to the summer economic statement, there is a section regarding our well-being performance dealing with the performance of things that really matter within our society. That information is sourced from the CSO well-being information hub. It compares Ireland's performance across 35 well-being indicators and compares our performance to other countries. Very briefly, progress was...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I will kick off there. I thank Deputy Canney. I entirely agree with his point that with so much funding being available through the Apple decision, it is imperative we make a decision regarding how we spend that money wisely. When Ireland experienced a gain such as this before, for example, the money that was made available for us in regional cohesion funding through our membership of the...