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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (18 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: The gender breakdown in my Department at the grades specified by the Deputy is set out in the table below: - Male Female Secretary General 1 - Assistant Secretary 4 4 Principal Officer 34 28

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Government Procurement (18 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Office of Government Procurement is responsible for establishing central purchasing arrangements for commonly required goods and services across 11 master categories of expenditure (Professional Services, Banking and Insurance, Consultancy and Advisory, Electricity and Gas, ICT, Facilities Management, Office Supplies, Travel Management, HR Services, Fleet, and Corporate Office Support...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Arts Council (19 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: My Department sanctioned the project with conditions in 2019. The Arts Council contacted the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer within my department in late 2023 to seek assistance with their planned ICT system. This assistance was provided in early-2024. My Department became aware of the extent of the financial loss when the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (19 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: Meeting their policy and service delivery obligations is a matter for each State Body. To support them in this regard, my Department publishes the Infrastructure Guidelines, with which all government departments and all public bodies in receipt of public capital funding must comply, as well as the Public Financial Procedures. My Department puts in place central procurement arrangements...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (19 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: I wish to advise the Deputy that a deferred reply will be issued to him in respect of these Parliamentary Questions, in line with Standing Order 51(1)(b).

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (19 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: In managing capital projects, my Department and the bodies under its aegis ensure that they are all evaluated and delivered in line with the Infrastructure Guidelines (which replaced the Public Spending Code) which set out value for money requirements for the evaluation, planning and management of public investment projects in Ireland. Capital spend is monitored and reviewed every...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: An Garda Síochána (19 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: No request has been received by the Department of Public Expenditure; National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to commence Garda Trainees on the first point of the Garda pay scale. In 2023, the Department of Justice and DPENDR agreed to increase the weekly Garda Trainee allowance from €184 to €305. Further agreement was reached between the Departments last year to increase...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flexible Work Practices (19 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: My Department’s Internal Blended Working Policy was finalised in August 2022 and is fully aligned with the overall Civil Service Blended Working Policy Framework. The Deputy will be aware that the Programme for Government includes a commitment to review this overall policy framework. Furthermore, the Deputy will also be aware that my Department developed and published a Blended...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Fire Service (20 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Single Public Service Pension Scheme is a statutory Public Service Career-Average Defined Benefit Pension Scheme, established on 1 January 2013 under the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012. The provisions of the Single Scheme are clearly set out in law and were enacted on 28 July 2012. All new-entrant public servants hired after 1 January 2013 are...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Appointments Service (20 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: The rates payable to retired Public Servants for serving on Interview Boards are in place since 1 July 2013. The rate payable is determined by the grade an individual served at the time of retirement. The Table below sets out the rates which are under review by my Department. Secretary General €377 per day Deputy Secretary €295 per...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 326 and 327 together. The CFRAM Programme outputs, the Government’s Flood Risk Management Plans, provide the evidence for a proactive approach for designing and constructing flood relief schemes for the most at-risk communities nationally. The delivery of these Plans is supported by government investment of €1.3 billion through the National...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Consultations (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: The report Supporting Excellence: Capital Project and Programme Delivery Capability Review was produced by EY on behalf of the Department and was published in January 2021. The cost of the report was borne by the European Commission through their Structural Reform Support Programme (now named the Technical Support Instrument), so is a matter for the Commission. There was no direct cost to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 329 and 330 together. The questions asked by the Deputy relate to the payment processes and financial systems of individual Contracting Authorities. My Department does not have a role in these processes.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 331, 332, 333, 334 and 335 together. The questions asked by the Deputy are matters of contract management. Individual Contracting Authorities manage the expenditure incurred on their contracts, in their relevant financial systems. Contract performance is managed by the individual Contracting Authorities, in line with the terms laid out in their individual...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 336, 337, 339, 340, 341 and 342 together. FOI applies to a highly diverse range of approximately 450 organisations across the civil and public sector. This ranges from large bodies such as the HSE, to entities with only a small number of staff. In this context, the Freedom of Information Act 2014 is necessarily structured around a devolved model. In the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Freedom of Information Act was substantially reviewed and updated in 2014. Among the steps taken was a significant change to the method for determining whether FOI applies to a particular entity. The 1997 Act had taken a prescriptive approach, whereby FOI applied to an entity only if it was specified in a schedule to the Act, updated from time to time by way of Statutory Instrument....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Consultations (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table below. Year Company Name Nature of the engagement Report and / or recommendations Cost 2023 Arthur Cox Specialist pensions legal advice No €40,266 Byrne Wallace Employment Advice and presentation...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: I wish to advise the Deputy that a deferred reply will be issued to him in respect of this Parliamentary Question, in line with Standing Order 51(1)(b).

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: I wish to advise the Deputy that a deferred reply will be issued to him in respect of this Parliamentary Question, in line with Standing Order 51(1)(b).

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Arts Council (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: My Department, by virtue of the oversight role of the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO), was first approached by the Arts Council regarding their ICT project in 2019. This was standard procedure as set out in Circular 2/2016 (which has since been superseded by Circular 14/2021: Arrangements for Oversight of Digital and ICT-related Initiatives in the Civil and Public...