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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: They are not on a knife edge. How can the Deputy say that? In the next 18 to 24 months, the Government aims to balance the books. That is not a definition of a knife edge. Some of the matters to which the Deputy referred come within the remit of the Minister for Finance and he will provide answers on them. As I stated, we will achieve balance in these areas by making steady and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: We will be on a knife edge very quickly if we start using unexpected increases in receipts to reduce the taxes that pay for day to day spending. The Deputy referred to the increase in corporation tax receipts. The Minister for Finance has stated we will not use large increases in revenue in specific tax brackets to reduce tax levels for everybody or to fund large increases in public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I have a particularly heightened appreciation of the current position because I am trying to deal with colleagues as a budget approaches.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: If the Deputy is referring to the abolition of rates in 1977-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: -----that is not a prospect for the budget in one and a half weeks' time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: It was an appreciation of that which fuelled my answers to Deputy Paul Murphy's questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Will the Chairman provide a specific example without giving any names?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Are other people appointed to do the same work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: As it is a specific matter for the Companies Registration Office, I cannot comment on it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Our colleagues in Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland, in particular, are doing that. My colleagues in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine are also doing it. We are trying to provide as much certainty as we can. I repeat the point I made that a crucial element is knowing when exactly the United Kingdom wants to trigger Article 50 and will make its views very clear on the kind...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Chairman.

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Staff Remuneration (4 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank Deputy Shortall for raising this matter, which I know to be of interest to many within the House. The issue, as the Deputy described, relates to the campaign by the INMO and other nursing unions, including the Psychiatric Nurses Association of Ireland and SIPTU nursing unions, aimed at restoring incremental credit for the 36-week clinical placement undertaken in the fourth and...

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Staff Remuneration (4 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I am not welching on any agreement. A process was put in place between the Department of Health and my Department and that process is being carried out. On the different points the Deputy puts to me and the effect of recruitment, my colleague, the Minister for Health, is best placed to comment on the effect of that campaign. I note, to emphasise the figures, that the number of nurses...

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Staff Remuneration (4 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: In respect of recruitment in the United Kingdom I understand 420 applications have been received for posts. That work is under way. In response to the Deputy’s first question about standing over this, I did not do this. This decision was taken in December 2010 when our country was facing gigantic economic difficulty. Now, because of the change in our circumstances, it has been...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Government Economic and Evaluation Service (4 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: In January 2016, it was agreed that the Department for Public Expenditure and Reform, in its remit as the lead Department for the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service (IGEES), would take the policy lead in bringing a more coherent, planned and informed approach to the application of Behavioural Insights/Economics in the Irish public service.  My Department is...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Semi-State Bodies Remuneration (4 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The Guidelines on Contracts, Remuneration and Other Conditions of Chief Executives and Senior Management of Commercial State Bodies issued in 2006 and recently updated in 2016 provide general guidance on remuneration and related terms and conditions of employment for newly appointed Chief Executives of commercial state bodies.  In this regard the position of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Data (4 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The table outlines the number of retired public sector employees who are in receipt of a public sector pension that have been re-employed either part time or full time, temporary or otherwise by my Department or by bodies under its aegis. Organisation Number Department of Public Expenditure and Reform 1 Public Appointments Service 94 The Office of Public Works 0 Institute of Public...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Nursing Staff Remuneration (4 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Incremental credit for the 36 week clinical placement undertaken by 4th Year Student Nurses was abolished by the then Government in December 2010 as part of a range of measures aimed at reducing the public service pay bill. In the context of the Lansdowne Road Agreement it was agreed between management and unions that the issue of the 36 week incremental credit would be examined in relation...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Nursing Staff Remuneration (4 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Incremental credit for the 36 week clinical placement undertaken by 4th Year Student Nurses was abolished by the then Government in December 2010 as part of a range of measures aimed at reducing the public service pay bill. In the context of the Lansdowne Road Agreement it was agreed between management and unions that the issue of the 36 week incremental credit would be examined in relation...