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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Measures (2 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Public Sector Standards Bill 2015 was published on 23rd December 2015, and completed Second Stage in the Dáil on 20th January 2016. I expect that it will recommence at committee stage in the Dáil in early April with a view to enactment before the summer. This Bill aims to significantly enhance the existing framework for identifying, disclosing and managing conflicts of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Process RIA (2 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 165 and 166 together. In response to the Deputy's questions, the following table outlines the Bills published by my Department since it was established in 2011 and indicates whether a regulatory impact assessment was conducted. No. Description Regulatory Impact Assessment 1 Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 2011 No 2 Appropriation Act 2011 No 3...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (7 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Office of Government Procurement has been established to centralise the procurement of common goods and services across the public sector. This move is in line with best practice in the public and private sector and is part of the continuing reform programme being driven by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. OGP has taken responsibility for the procurement of Professional...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (7 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: On foot of EU Regulation (EU) 549/2013 the C.S.O. will be required to report on the gross liabilities of Irish pension schemes as part of the National Accounts. Reporting is mandatory, commencing with an end 2015 position. This exercise is being undertaken by D/PER on behalf of the C.S.O following on from a previous exercise to determine an Accrued liability figure in respect of the National...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (7 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to the Deputy's question, there was no expenditure on public relations by my Department during 2016.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Sector Staff (7 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The forum reconvened under a new Chair and met on Friday 24 February 2017. The work of the forum continues and the minutes of the meeting will be published on my Department's website in due course.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (7 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Circular 04/2017: Interdepartmental Competition for appointment to Assistant Principal Higher in the Civil Service issued on 22 February 2017. The competition is in line with past AP Higher competitions in that the eligibility pool is taken from both the existing AP standard level and the top tranche of successful candidates in the AP standard competition. Equivalent grades at AP...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (7 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I refer the Deputy to my reply to Parliamentary Question No. 4045/17 on 31 January 2017. Parliamentary Question No. 4045/17 on 31 January 2017 [Brendan Howlin] To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to similarly advance the payment date for retired public servants, in view of the advancing of the date for the next payment of pay restoration for public...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Tribunals of Inquiry (7 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department is very conscious that there must be careful management of costs relating to the Tribunal into protected disclosuresmade under the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 and certain other matters following Resolutions. This message has been conveyed to my colleague the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality and officials of our Departments are working to ensure that...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Brexit Issues (7 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Brexit issues in my Department are coordinated centrally by the Department's EU/North South/Brexit Unit. The Unit oversees Brexit work across the Department and acts as the contact point with the Department of the Taoiseach and other Government Departments. It is represented on the Inter-Departmental Group on Brexit and related groups, and supports me in my work as a member of the Cabinet...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (7 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I take it that the Deputy is referring to the Single Public Service Pension Scheme that was introduced for new entrants to the public service, including the civil service, from 1 January 2013. There is no specific provision in the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012 which established the Single Pension Scheme, to provide for the purchase or...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (7 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The issue raised by the Deputy is a matter for the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in the first instance. However, I am advised that Temporary Veterinary Inspectors are engaged as and when required by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to assist its permanent veterinary staff. I am further advised that they are not employees of that Department, rather they are...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (7 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 373 and 374 together. The 2016 Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies provides that the term of a contract of a CEO of a Commercial Semi State Company is normallylimited to a single contract period of between five and seven years but there is no maximum length of service for CEO's. The updated Code can be found at the following...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (8 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The issue raised by the Deputy is a matter for my colleague the Minister for Health to consider in the first instance as the organisations in question come within the purview of the Department of Health in respect of the provision matters referred to.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Brexit Issues (9 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Capital Plan "Building on Recovery", sets out a €42 billion framework to address our priority infrastructure needs up to 2021. This plan is being reviewed to ensure that capital spending continues to be strictly aligned with national economic and social priorities, consistent with Programme for Partnership Government objectives. This includes examining how the additional...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service Conciliation and Arbitration Scheme (9 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The particular organisation referred to by the Deputy in the details supplied is not registered as a political organisation on the current Register of Political Parties in Ireland. It is therefore considered that no issue arises under the Civil Service Conciliation and Arbitration Scheme in relation to the matter raised by the Deputy in respect of the civil service trade union concerned.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (9 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to the Deputy's question, my Department has not received any Freedom of Information requests over the past three years where the Chief State Solicitor's Office have incurred any expenses.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 11 - Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (9 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the committee for giving me an opportunity to attend today's meeting. I will speak briefly on my overall Vote before facilitating as many questions as possible. As the Chair has said, this Vote group comprises the Votes for the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, the Office of Government Procurement and the National Shared Services Office; the Votes for the offices under...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 11 - Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (9 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy for his question and will share the figures with him. I will start, however, by making clear that all the tribunals and commissions of inquiry that took place were pieces of work that needed to be done. They include the investigation on a very important matter, whose terms of reference are currently being settled by the House. All this work needed to be done in the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 11 - Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (9 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: As I said to the Deputy earlier, I want to be very careful, particularly in the context of the public debate that took place recently on the setting up of a tribunal on certain disclosures and in the context of the debate taking place in the Dáil today. I wish to be very clear in recognising that there are truths in our society that need a form of inquiry. At each point of the process...