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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (4 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: As part of the review of the Capital Plan, which is currently in train, my Department wrote to all Departments in January inviting submissions, to include, inter alia, proposals for reprioritisation within existing allocations to reflect developments or changes in priorities since the Plan was published in 2015 and any new proposals to utilise the additional...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Regulation of Lobbying (4 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Section 2 of The Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015 provides for a review of the operation of the Act and for a report of the findings resulting from the review and of the conclusions drawn from those findings to be made. The purpose of this review is to evaluate if the legislation has met its objectives of providing appropriate transparency on "who is lobbying whom about what"; drawing on...

Brexit: Statements (Resumed) (5 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: "Each time great events and crises sunder the closed horizon of waiting, sweeping away the boredom, they thereby disturb the illusion of a future in which the main features were thought to be fixed but this ought not to surprise us because reality is fundamentally unpredictable." Those words were written by an adviser to a former President of the European Commission prior to Brexit and...

Brexit: Statements (Resumed) (5 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The track record of successive Governments from many parties, excluding the Deputy's party, has been to play a leadership role successfully in dealing with the challenges in the North and to try to create an environment in which the peace process can prosper. It is such a pity that the spirit and tone we hear from Sinn Féin in the North regarding the role the Government is playing in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service Remuneration (5 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Under Section 5(1) of the Payment of Wages Act, 1991, "an employer shall not make a deduction from the wages of an employee (or receive any payment from an employee) unless - (a) the deduction (or payment) is required or authorised to be made by virtue of any statute or any instrument made under statute. (b) the deduction (or payment) is required or authorised to be made by...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Consultancy Contracts Data (5 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to the Deputy's question, none of the bodies under the aegis of my Department have hired a private investigation firm over the past five years.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Brexit Issues (5 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 262 and 263 together. Brexit issues in my Department are coordinated centrally by the Department's Brexit/EU/North South 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...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (5 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Posts in the Irish Civil Service are generally open to suitably qualified candidates who are nationals of an EU Member State, including Ireland, or the European Economic Area (EEA).  Such individuals have the right under the EU Treaties to reside and take up employment in any EEA Member State.  Non-EEA citizens do not benefit from these rights and do not...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Bodies Expenditure (5 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: There are robust and well established transparent financial reporting requirements across Government Departments and Offices which also apply to An Garda Síochána.  The accounting rules, principles and procedures for Government Departments and Offices are set out in Public Financial Procedures and relevant Circulars issued by the Department of Public Expenditure and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Private Partnerships (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: PPPs offer an alternative model for delivering infrastructure that can be effective in particular circumstances. However, the long-term nature of the financial commitments arising under PPPs require that the use of such arrangements must be carefully planned in order to ensure that they are used to address infrastructural needs in a manner that is sustainable in the long term and which...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: At the outset the management of the tendering process for a public contract and the administration of the contract once awarded is a matter for each contracting authority. The complete data on public works contracts is held by the contracting authority concerned. It is the responsibility of individual contracting authorities to publish contract award notices following the signing of a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Submissions in relation to the mid-term review and the additional €2.65 billion funding available, were sought from Departments in January and are currently being received by my Department.  A public consultation process has also commenced, to ascertain the views of the public and key stakeholders on what our national infrastructure priorities should be, in light of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Administration (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The details sought by the Deputy are included in the minutes of the Forum which may be accessed on my Department's website. The minutes of the most recent meeting of the Forum with accompanying details of representatives in attendance are currently  awaiting  approval by the parties to the Forum and will then be published on the Department's website.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The High Level Working Group Forum is the formal representative body through which both management side and union side interests meet to deliberate on the particular issue in question.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 211 to 214, inclusive, together. The table following sets out for each Ministerial Vote Group gross voted capital expenditure for 2016, the published allocation for gross voted capital expenditure for 2017 and the updated ceilings for this expenditure category for 2018 and 2019 published in the Revised Estimates Volume (REV) taking into...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Private Partnerships Data (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: A list of PPP and Concession projects which are now either operational or in construction, by sector, is set out in the following table: Department/Agency Project Classification Operational From Health Primary Care Bundle DBFM 2017 OPW National Conference Centre DBFOM Aug-10 Justice Criminal Courts Complex DBFOM Nov-09 Courts Bundle DBFOM 2017 Education National Maritime...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Aer Lingus Sale (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The acquisition of Aer Lingus by IAG, in 2015, resulted in a receipt of some €335m by the Exchequer for the Government's shareholding in the company.  These funds were used to establish a Connectivity Fund, to support commercial projects that enhance connectivity both within and for the State, including physical, virtual and energy connectivity.  The Connectivity Fund was...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Estimates 2017 contained an allocation of Gross Voted Capital Expenditure of €4.5bn.  This represents an increase of almost €500m on the outturn for 2016.  The increased capital allocation for each Vote Group comparing the 2017 allocation to the provisional outturn for 2016 is set out in the following table.  Ministerial Vote Group Increase in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Consultancy Contracts Data (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to the Deputy's question, the following table outlines the total amount spent on external consultant reports commissioned by my Department since 2011.  My Department only uses external consultants where essential and the contracts are negotiated with a view to achieving best value for money.  When external consultants are used, the staff in my Department ensure that...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I take Deputy Calleary's point that it is open to any Deputy on Report Stage to table amendments. We shared all of our amendments with the Bills Office last Thursday in advance of the deadline for this session. However, I apologise if members feel that they have not had enough time to consider them. If any Deputy wishes to amend the Bill on Report Stage, we will consider anything put...