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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Public expenditure has been managed in line with key fiscal targets over the last number of years. To ensure that these targets are met, managing the delivery of public services within budgetary allocations is a key responsibility of each Minister and their Department.  The drawdown of funds from the Exchequer is monitored against the published expenditure profiles.  In...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I am very open to and accountable to the Oireachtas through keeping Deputies informed by responses to Parliamentary Questions, engagement with Parliamentary Committees, and engaging with Deputies on specific issues through the reformed Budgetary processess - including on the Summer Economic Statement, Mid Year Expenditure Report and through the National Economic...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Given the scale of gross voted expenditure, €58 billion in aggregate for 2017,the cash basis of Government accounting, and the funding implications that unexpected events can have on expenditure requirements, the need for Supplementary Estimates can arise for a number of reasons: - Policy - the Government may decide, taking into account developments during the year, that it is...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Remuneration (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: It is the position that officials representing my Department in conjunction with their colleagues in the Department of Justice and Equality recently met with representatives of the Garda Associations to discuss matters of mutual concern related to the Lansdowne Road Agreement. These discussions were conducted in the first instance on a bilateral basis between the two...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Brexit Issues (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Following the result of the UK referendum on EU membership I had my first discussion on its implications with my own officials on the day of the referendum result itself, and I have met with them regularly since then as matters have developed. As regards the European Commission, my Northern Ireland colleague, Máirtín Ó Muilleoir and I wrote, at my initiative, to EU...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department is continuing its work on the planning of the Capital Review, the outcome of which is expected to be ready in time for publication alongside the 2017 Mid-Year Expenditure report. The objective of the Capital Review will be to provide a focused analysis of capital spending and what can realistically be delivered over the remainder of the Plan utilising the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Policy (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy will be aware that responsibility for the conduct of fiscal policy, including in terms of ensuring compliance with  the fiscal rules, is a matter for the Minister for Finance on behalf of the Government.  The Deputy may wish to note, however, that compliance is not just an EU requirement under the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) but is...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The Lansdowne Road Agreeement is a Collective Agreement between the Government and public service employers with  the Public Services Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) and other associations representing public servants. The terms of the Agreement have been implemented through the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2015 and represent...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware, there are specific flexibility provisions within the fiscal rules for public capital investment.  In specific terms, the Expenditure Benchmark pillar of the fiscal rules allows favourable treatment for capital investment through the smoothing of capital formation increases over four years. This means that only one quarter...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Company Law (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has no role in relation to the matter raised. The Companies Act 2014 is a matter for the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 154, 157 to 159, inclusive, 161 and 162 together. Public expenditure has been managed in line with key fiscal targets over the last number of years. To ensure that these targets are met, managing the delivery of public services within budgetary allocations is a key responsibility of each Minister and their Department.  The drawdown of funds...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Under the Lansdowne Road Agreement, agreement was reached between public service staff representatives and public service employers to extend the Public Service Stability Agreement 2013-2016 (Haddington Road Agreement). The Government strongly supports the Lansdowne Road Agreement which remains in place as the centrepiece of public service pay policy. The...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The OGP and its partner sector sourcing organisations in Health, Education, Local Government and Defence have enabled procurement savings estimated at €162m over 2013, 2014 and 2015.  The 2016 savings outturn has not been finalised but the target for 2016 was between €80 and €100 million.  Additional direct and indirect benefits attributable to the new model...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Semi-State Bodies Dividends (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The reason for dividends from commercial semi-State companies being behind profile by €304 million in the end-October Exchequer returns is due to a review of the timing of payment by Ervia, by way of special dividend, of the proceeds from the Bord Gais Energy sale transaction. A special dividend payment of €370 million by...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Expenditure (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Details of the annual cast cost of public service pensions in each of the years 2010 to 2017 are presented in the following table. Pension cost information (and information on pay and headcount) for past years is publicly available on my Department's website . The 2016 and 2017 Estimates provided in the table are as published in the Revised Estimates Volume 2016 and the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The following table outlines the Exchequer pay bill (gross and net) and compares these amounts with Exchequer tax revenue for the period 2005 to 2015. (€bn) 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Gross Pay 14.1 15.4 16.6 17.2 17.5 16.0 15.7 15.3 15.1 14.7 15.1 Net Pay 13.9 15.2 16.6 17.1 16.6 15.0 14.7 14.3 14.1 13.8 14.5 Tax Revenues 39.3 45.5 47.2 40.8 33.0 31.8...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Levy (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The public service Pension-Related Deduction (PRD) was introduced in March 2009 under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009. The Exchequer yield from PRD since its inception in 2009 up to 2015 is as follows: Year PRD Yield  2009 €837,419,000 2010 €948,605,000 2011 €960,224,000 2012 €934,739,000 2013...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Data (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: In relation to the Civil Service, my Department holds information on numbers employed by county and I will forward the details to the Deputy's office under separate cover. For the public service as a whole, individual level data - such as relating to location - is not held centrally by Department rather it resides as part of the individual employee data record held and maintained...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Data (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The following table presents data on full and part time workers in the Civil Service (including traditional part-time - i.e. 50% of full-time - and other work sharing patterns) from end 2006 to Q2, 2016. Data for the prison service, which is part of the Civil Service, is recorded separately as prison staff are predominantly full-time. The "other" category refers to a small...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Measures (29 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The Statute Law Revision Programme was initiated in 2003. It formerly operated within the auspices of the Office of the Attorney General and is now contained within the Government Reform Unit of my Department. Its purpose is to modernise and simplify the Statute book by removing spent and obsolete pieces of legislation, thereby reducing its size and thus making it more...