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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2025 (8 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Expenditure reviews are a key component of the public expenditure management framework. They began with the special group report 2009 which initiated the first Value for Money (VFM) process, followed by two comprehensive reviews of expenditure (CRE) 2012-2014 and 2015-2017, two spending review cycles 2017-2019 and 2020-2022 and a one year process in 2023. Since 2017 the spending review...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (9 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 78 to 81, inclusive, together. The response below provides a composite answer to Questions 40385/24, 40386/24, 40387/24, and 40388/24. In Budget 2020, the Minister for Finance announced that the projected revenue raised by a €6 increase of the carbon tax in 2020 would be ring-fenced to protect those most exposed to higher fuel and energy costs, to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (10 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Public procurement practices are subject to audit and scrutiny under the Comptroller and Auditor General (Amendment) Act 1993, and the Local Government Reform Act 2014. Individual Accounting Officers are responsible for ensuring that their public procurement functions are discharged in line with the standard accounting and procurement rules and procedures and are publicly accountable for...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Reviews (10 Oct 2024)

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).

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: There is a process.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thought you were all in favour of process.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Deputy Carthy is in bad form.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Deputy Carthy is in bad form today.

Appointment of Members of the Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Motion (15 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I move: That Dáil Éireann, noting that the Government agreed on 8th October, 2024, to propose, for the approval of Dáil Éireann, the appointment or reappointment, as the case may be, of the persons concerned to be members of the Legal Services Regulatory Authority, and pursuant to sections 9 and 10 of the Legal Services Regulation Act, 2015, approves the appointment of...

Supplementary Estimates for Public Services 2024: Leave to Introduce (15 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I move: That leave be given by the Dáil to introduce the following Supplementary Estimates for the service of the year ending on the 31st day of December, 2024: Vote 20 — Garda Síochána (Supplementary Estimate). Vote 21 — Prisons (Supplementary Estimate). Vote 22 — Courts Service (Supplementary Estimate). Vote 24 — Justice (Supplementary...

Social Welfare (Consolidated Claims, Payments and Control) (Amendment) (No. XX) (Jobseeker's Pay-Related Benefit) Regulations 2024: Motion (15 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft: Social Welfare (Consolidated Claims, Payments and Control) (Amendment) (No. XX) (Jobseeker's Pay-Related Benefit) Regulations 2024, a copy of which was laid in draft form before Dáil Éireann on 10th October, 2024.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy very much for raising what is a very important issue for the school and for education policy in general. I know she agrees that all the girls and boys who go to that school and their teachers deserve support and recognition in the learning received and the teaching provided. It is therefore very important that this issue be raised here today. I will comment on the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I can absolutely assure the Deputy of our desire, which I am sure is the desire of everyone in this House, to continue to support the school beyond quarter 1, well into what I am sure will be an important future for it in meeting the needs and educational needs of the pupils it is looking after. To reiterate what I said a moment ago, we recognise in general the demands that schools are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: -----but I know it will only be heightened by the exchange that we are having here today. Given the funding we are making available for special education, particularly for these schools, to meet the needs of the pupils and support the teachers, I hope this can be brought to a place where the school can get the support it needs so its valuable work can continue in the future.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy appears to be approaching this issue through the lens of claims that may or may not be made at election time. That is not the approach of this Government. We have a senior Minister with responsibility for disability. That Minister is Deputy Donnelly. The Government made a decision to move disability services out of the Department of Health and move them. Excuse me; the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The issues the Deputy is raising are ones the Government takes seriously. I go back to the point that I made in reply to Deputy McDonald. Amid the different figures that we will trade and the general political claims that will be made here, I am keenly aware of that young girl or young boy with a disability or additional needs and the support she or he needs early in life. I am keenly...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy referred to the Government splashing the cash. I assume she is referring to the cost-of-living measures. What cost-of-living measure is she against?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Is she against the energy credit? Is she against the change in the domiciliary care allowance?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Is she against the changes that we made to support those in receipt of the disability allowance, the invalidity pension and the blind pension? Is she against the payments for those who are in receipt of the fuel allowance or those in receipt of the living alone allowance?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: She made the claim about splashing the cash. I am asking her to tell me what measure she is against. During our exchange this afternoon, she might do that.