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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (22 Jan 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the tables below in respect of my Department and the bodies under its aegis. I am advised that the Office of Public Works will respond to the Deputy directly. ">Response

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (22 Jan 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: The information requested by the Deputy in respect of my Department and the bodies under its aegis is set out in the tables below. ">Response

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (22 Jan 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to advise the Deputy that the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform fully adheres to Circular 4/2013: Career Break Scheme in the Civil Service. The Department currently facilitates staff returning from career break as soon as they wish to return and has had no instances where a career break has been extended due to not having an appropriate...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (22 Jan 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: The Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform has overall policy responsibility in relation to public service occupational pension schemes, including those relating to the Spouses' and Children's Pension Scheme (where the terms ‘spouse’ also relates to those in a civil partnership) and for the Single Public Service Pension Scheme, which makes provision for...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (22 Jan 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table below. Grade Number of Vacancies as of 31/12/2024 Estimated timeframe for filling each vacancy Assistant Secretary 1 Estimated time of filling this category of vacancy is indicatively 16 weeks from the date of advertisement. Principal Officer ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (22 Jan 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: Section 58 of the Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) Act 2004 specifies responsibilities for recruitment policy across the Public Service. As Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, I have responsibility for all matters relating to recruitment in the Civil Service, including the eligibility criteria. Responsibility for recruitment...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Appointments Service (22 Jan 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by the Public Appointments Service (PAS) that the original decision taken in this case was subject to formal review. This review was carried out by a formal reviewer from the Compliance function in PAS, which operates independently of recruitment. The formal reviewer issued the outcome to the candidate on 5th December 2024. The candidate raised issues in relation to his...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: An Garda Síochána (22 Jan 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: The Single Public Service Pension Scheme was introduced in 2013 to place publicly-funded retirement benefits on a more sustainable footing. The Single Scheme is the default public service pension scheme for all new entrant public servants since 1 January 2013. While all public servants recruited after 2013 are enrolled in the Single Scheme, uniformed staff such as firefighters, members...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Appointments to State Boards (22 Jan 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to advise the Deputy that there were no such appointments in the time period specified.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (22 Jan 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: Government policy in relation to starting pay in the civil and public service is that all new entrants start on Point 1 of the relevant salary scale. Incremental credit is granted under the terms of Circular 21/2004 :- Agreement on incremental credit for previous service for entry levels at Clerical Officer, Executive Officer, or equivalent grades represented by the Civil and Public...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Artificial Intelligence (22 Jan 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: In relation to the use of AI, my Department has regard to relevant guidance published by the National Cyber Security Centre, the seven requirements for ethical AI that have been developed by the European Commission’s High Level Expert Group on AI in their Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI and the Interim Guidelines for the Use of AI in the Public Service. These Interim Guidelines,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (22 Jan 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: In terms of general grade Civil Service recruitment, the Public Appointments Service has panel availability for Clerical Officer (CO) Irish and existing vacancies are being filled from that at the moment. It is anticipated that another CO Irish competition will be launched later this year but no advertising date has been confirmed as yet. An Executive Officer Irish competition is currently...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (22 Jan 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 404 and 405 together. Following on from the 2011 Programme for Government, the Public Service Reform Plan 2011 set out that purchase orders for €20,000 or over by a Government Department or Agency should be published online, with this being implemented across 2011 and 2012. The Freedom of Information Act 2014 puts in place a structure to support the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Official Travel (22 Jan 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: In 2023 and 2024 I travelled on four occasions on behalf of the State. I represented the State abroad twice in 2023 and twice in 2024. On the first occasion in 2023 I travelled to Germany from March 14 to 18 as part of the Government’s St. Patrick’s Day Programme for a total of five days and four nights. On the second occasion in 2023, I travelled to the United States from...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (22 Jan 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department requires any successful tenderer to supply its Tax Clearance Access Number and Tax Registration Number to facilitate online verification of their tax status before they can be set up as a supplier on the Department’s financial management system. Following their set-up as a supplier, all payments providing goods or services to my...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (22 Jan 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department had no contracts with the companies referenced during the timeframe specified.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Employment Rights (22 Jan 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: Public Procurement is governed by EU and national rules. The aim of these rules is to promote an open, competitive and non-discriminatory public procurement regime which delivers best value for money. Specifically, EU rules require tenderers to be compliant with relevant employment law in order to participate in a public procurement process. The directives make it clear that...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery (22 Jan 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy’s question raises issues that had already suggested themselves in the case of the National Lottery (Amendment) Bill 2021 – No. 57 of 2021. My Department has referred the issues raised by that Bill to the Office of the Attorney General for advice. My Department will examine that advice as soon as it is available.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (5 Feb 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 247, 304 and 305 together. I am advised that Revenue is committed to targeting the illicit tobacco trade and implements a range of measures to identify and target the smuggling, supply or sale of illicit tobacco, including duty free tobacco in excess of duty-free allowances, and where possible, prosecuting those involved. Revenue keeps its operational...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Rental Sector (5 Feb 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will appreciate, decisions regarding taxation measures are made in the context of the annual Budget and Finance Bill processes, at the appropriate time, and having regard to the sound management of the public finances. However, and as the deputy may be aware, the Residential Premises Rental Income Relief (RPRIR) provides relief, at the standard rate, on a portion of a...