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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Labour Court Recommendations (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The issue of pension entitlements for Community Employment Scheme Supervisors and Assistant Supervisors was the subject of a Labour Court recommendation in 2008. The position is that although the employing bodies concerned are mainly funded by public expenditure programmes, the State does not have any role as an employer in this sector and the employees of such bodies are not...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Retirements (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: An Inter-Departmental Working Group on Fuller Working Lives was established earlier this year under the chairmanship of my Department which considered policy around retirement age in both the public and private sectors, examining implications arising from retirement ages now and in the future.  That Group reported recently and in accordance with one of its recommendations, my Department...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (11 Oct 2016)

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.  It would be a breach of the EU rules for a public body to favour or discriminate against particular candidates on grounds such as nationality, organisational size, etc. and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware the Public Appointments Service (PAS) is the centralised recruiter for the Civil and Public Service. It is an independent, statutory body which provides professional recruitment and selection services. Through its selection competitions PAS establishes panels of suitably qualified individuals from which vacancies may be filled. The number of positions available...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Data (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to the Deputy's question, the Payroll Shared Service Centre processes payroll payments for over 98,000 payees, including retired civil servants.  The primary source for the provision of payslip information is through the Payroll Shared Service Centre online payslip facility.  Payees can access current and historical payslip data through this online facility, which can be...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The issue raised in this question relates to a provision of the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012 which extended the application of pension abatement to cases in which the public service pensioner secures an appointment in sectors other than the sector in which the pensioner had been previously employed. Abatement of pension in the public service is...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Labour Court Recommendations (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The issue of pension entitlements for Community Employment Scheme Supervisors and Assistant Supervisors was the subject of a Labour Court recommendation in 2008. The position is that although the employing bodies concerned are mainly funded by public expenditure programmes, the State does not have any role as an employer in this sector and the employees of such bodies are not...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Health and Safety Regulations (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to the Deputy's question, there are no commercial or non-commercial state agencies under the remit of my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Agencies Staff Data (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to the Deputy's question, there are no commercial or non-commercial state agencies under the remit of my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Review (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I am aware of the activities of the Community Sector High Level Forum (or Working Group) (previously the Informal Forum) which was convened to examine certain issues pertaining to the Community Employment sector.  The forum met on 27 November 2015 and on 11 April 2016.  Future meetings will be planned once a new Chair has been appointed.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Private Partnerships (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to PPP stakeholders' calls for greater clarity on the way in which Eurostat classifies public private partnerships, in the wake of the publication in March of the Revised Manual on General Government and Debt (MGDD), the European PPP Expertise Centre (EPEC) and Eurostat have worked together over recent months to produce a practitioners' guide with a view to bringing...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (11 Oct 2016)

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.  It would be a breach of the EU rules for a public body to favour or discriminate against particular candidates on grounds such as nationality, organisational size, etc. and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Functions (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to the Deputy's question the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has no responsibility in this matter. I understand that the information can be obtained by the Deputy directly from the Houses of the Oireachtas.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Institutes of Technology Funding (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy will appreciate that a very important consideration in considering the scope for independent borrowing by institutions in the higher education sector is whether that borrowing is  classified as falling within the General Government sector or not. At national level the CSO are responsible under EU regulation for ensuring that all units within the economy are...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Remuneration (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The severance value referred to by the Deputy relates to a case quoted in the report on severance payments in the public service published by the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) and recently reviewed by the PAC.  The value cited is the capital value assigned to an entitlement to retire early and an award of added pension years calculated by the C&AG's actuarial...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commission for Public Service Appointments (12 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware, the Commission for Public Service Appointments (CPSA) is an independent statutory body.  It is responsible for overseeing appointments to a wide range of positions in the Civil and Public Service.  In carrying out its oversight role, it audits recruitment processes and examines complaints from individuals unhappy with the conduct of an appointment...

Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Absolutely.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Státseirbhís (13 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Tógfaidh mé Ceisteanna Uimh. 106 agus 107 le chéile. Tá seachtar ball foirne a bhfuil cumas feidhmeach acu obair na Roinne a dhéanamh sa Ghaeilge, coibhéiseach le tuairim 1% den fhoireann uile. Cé go bhfuil cuma ar an líon seo a bheith beag, is leor é le riachtanais na Roinne, nach mbíonn i dteagmháil dhíreach le...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Earcaíocht san Earnáil Phoiblí (13 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Mar is eol don Teachta Dála, sa bhliain 2014, cheadaigh an Rialtas cur chuige nua chun tacú le cumas Gaeilge sa státseirbhís. Faoin gcur chuige nua seo tá bearta chuireadh i bhfeidhm chun deireadh a chuir leis an bpolasaí maidir le marcanna bónais a bhronnadh as inniúlacht Ghaeilge in earcaíocht agus i gcomórtais d'arduithe céime sa...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures (13 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: In so far as the arrangements referred to in the Deputy's earlier question relate to a scheme operated by the United States' Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and accessible to Irish citizens under the U.S.'s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, by which monetary awards are available for tip-offs leading to successful enforcement actions by the SEC, it would be a matter for my...