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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: I am advised by the Commissioners of Public Works (OPW) that the Heath is an area of commonage, comprising some 426 acres, located on the Dublin side of Portlaoise. The Heath was a former Crown property, which is vested in the Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP, Delivery and Reform and managed by the OPW. The OPW carries out regular inspections on the Heath, including at the Bog Lake...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Responsibilities (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Deputy will be aware that there are two Ministers of State appointed to my Department: • Deputy Emer Higgins is Minister of State at this Department with responsibility for Public Procurement, Digitalisation and eGovernment; and • Deputy Kevin Boxer Moran is Minister of State at this Department with responsibility for the Office of Public Works. No formal Delegation of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: I am advised by the Office of Public Works (OPW) that it does not obtain market values of vacant surplus properties / sites until these properties / sites are being prepared for disposal, by intra-state transfer or for sale on the open market. When a property or site is being transferred via intra-state transfer to another State body, the current market value is independently...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: The principle of abatement is a longstanding feature of public service pension schemes and its application across all sectors of the public sector was provided for in the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012 (the Single Scheme Act). The Act provides for the abatement of a public service pension where a retired public servant, whose pension is in payment,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Office of Public Works (OPW) has responsibility on behalf of the State for managing and maintaining a substantial and complex estate - comprising approximately 2,500 properties. This extensive and diverse portfolio of State properties extends from Leinster House to Skellig Michael and includes office accommodation for all Government Departments, the property estate for An Garda...

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

Jack Chambers: The Midleton Flood Relief Scheme is being progressed by Cork County Council and is currently estimated for submission to An Bord Pleanála under the Planning and Development Acts by early 2026 and for substantial completion by 2031. Cork County Council has begun to engage with landowners, whose lands have been identified as needed for the scheme. Work is ongoing on environmental surveys...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: A new Garda station for the Castletroy and Annacotty area of Limerick is a priority for both An Garda Síochána and the Office of Public Works, and both organisations have been working closely together to realise this goal. AGS have drafted a preliminary Business Case for a new Station and this was received by the OPW late last year. The OPW has completed a market trawl for suitable...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: Coastal protection and localised flooding issues are matters, in the first instance, for each local authority to investigate and address. The Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme was introduced by the OPW on an administrative, non-statutory basis in 2009. The purpose of the scheme is to provide funding to local authorities to undertake minor flood mitigation works...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Arts Council (27 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: Since 2018, my Department has neither received a request for approval nor granted approval for any IT-related positions that the Arts Council has sought to establish or fill. As a general rule, my Department only considers senior-level positions in state agencies, specifically those at or above the level of Principal Officer Higher. For most positions at the Principal Officer General level...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Arts Council (27 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...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Arts Council (27 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: The interface and the communications between my department and the Arts Council falls into two areas i.e. the sanction process and some system issues analysis. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Electoral Commission (27 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: Under the Civil Service Regulation Act 1956, the Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform is responsible for range of functions in relation to the Civil Service. There were 212 Civil Servants (204 full-time equivalents) employed in Co. Carlow and 461 Civil Servants (449 full-time equivalents) employed in Co. Kilkenny as of 31 December 2024, as reported to my Department by...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (26 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: I wish to advise the Deputy that neither my Department nor any of the bodies under its aegis have used the services of the company referred to in the Details Supplied. Any questions relating to Tusla should be directed to my colleague the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Reviews (26 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: A review of fee rates is underway and the necessary data and analysis is being assembled. While there is no specific completion date for the review, I expect it will be concluded later this year.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Arts Council (26 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO), was approached by the Arts Council regarding difficulties with an IT project in December 2023. In response to that approach, and follow-up discussions, OGCIO commissioned a technical review with the aim of informing the related deliberations of the Arts Council and its parent department. The substantive content of that...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Policies (26 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: My Department is responsible for drawing up and circulating the general rules and frameworks within which public investment by other Government Departments and other bodies under their aegis must be made. The aim of these rules and frameworks, with which Government Departments and public bodies must comply, is to set out in the oversight and governance frameworks for public investment with a...

Waste in Public Expenditure: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2025)

Jack Chambers: I move amendment No.1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "notes that: — the Government condemns the waste of any public money and notes that significant sums have been spent on providing better public services in recent years with the additional funding allocated towards improving and expanding the public services provided to our...

Waste in Public Expenditure: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2025)

Jack Chambers: I can reference, for example, the sports capital programme and many other areas of capital investment that are valued by the Deputies in areas for which they advocate. The motion is not balanced in the context of the significant investment and impact that is being made in public services. I acknowledge the work and the dedication of many public and civil servants across the system who are...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Státseirbhís (5 Mar 2025)

Jack Chambers: Is é 756 líon na foirne sa Roinn. Táimid tiomanta d'infheistíocht a dhéanamh i scileanna Gaeilge agus urraíocht a dhéanamh are an bhfoireann chun tabhairt faoi Theastas sa Ghaeilge Ghairmiúil, trí chláir atá creidiúnaithe ag Teastas Eorpach na Gaeilge. Faoi láthair tá 13 ball foirne ann a bhfuil a gcumas sa Ghaeilge...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Regional Development (5 Mar 2025)

Jack Chambers: As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform I am responsible for setting the overall capital allocations across Departments and for monitoring monthly expenditure at Departmental level. The responsibility for the management and delivery of individual investment projects or sectoral policy strategies, within the allocations agreed under the National Development Plan (NDP),...