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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (29 May 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Review of the National Development Plan (NDP) will allocate funding to update capital expenditure ceilings out to 2035. The Review will encompass all public capital investment to 2035 and allocate the funds arising from the Apple Escrow account, the proceeds of bank share sales as well as funding from the Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund. In total, around €97 billion in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Artificial Intelligence (29 May 2025)

Jack Chambers: My department recently published the ‘Guidelines for the Responsible use of Artificial Intelligence in the Public Service’. These guidelines compliment and inform strategies regarding the adoption of innovative technology and ways of working already underway in the public service, and seek to set a high standard for public service transformation and innovation, while...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Reviews (29 May 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Programme for Government includes a commitment to reviewing the public procurement process to make it more transparent and work to ensure greater participation from SMEs. Working towards this aim, and to set out the strategic direction of public procurement for the next five years, my department is developing a first National Public Procurement Strategy. Consultation and collaboration...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (29 May 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),...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (29 May 2025)

Jack Chambers: In line with the commitment in the Programme for Government, Government has prioritised an early review of the National Development Plan, which will be published in July. The Review will allocate funding to update capital expenditure ceilings out to 2035 and will significantly increase investment in our national infrastructure. In total, around €97 billion in capital funding will...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (29 May 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Programme for Government sets out the ambition to improve our infrastructure, especially housing, energy, water, transport and health digitalisation. Prioritisation of these critical priorities is necessary to deliver on the ambition of the Review to provide the supporting infrastructure to enable the delivery of 300,000 additional homes by 2030 and to boost our competitiveness. ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Meetings (29 May 2025)

Jack Chambers: Cohesion Policy is the European Union's strategy to promote and support the development of its Member States and regions by reinforcing economic, social and territorial dimensions. It aims to mitigate disparities in development levels among regions, promote equitable growth and integration throughout the EU. Cohesion funding is used across the country to support a range of initiatives...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Programmes (29 May 2025)

Jack Chambers: Cohesion Policy is the European Union's strategy to promote and support the development of its Member States and regions. Ireland will receive a total of €1.3bn in Cohesion Policy Funds for the 2021– 2027 period and when the requirement for national matching funding is included the full value is almost €3.5 billion. Cohesion funding is used across the country to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (29 May 2025)

Jack Chambers: There is substantial information made available on capital infrastructure projects to both Dáil Éireann and to the wider public through a number of formal reporting frameworks. There is currently extensive reporting of capital projects in the financial statements of Government Departments and Offices as well as the annual reports and financial statements of bodies under their...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (29 May 2025)

Jack Chambers: Public procurement is governed by EU legislation and national rules and guidelines with the aim of promoting an open, competitive and non-discriminatory public procurement regime, which delivers best value for money. The procurement regulations impose a duty on contracting authorities to require economic operators to explain the price or cost proposed where the tenders seem abnormally low in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (29 May 2025)

Jack Chambers: I thank the deputy for his question and will answer it as I can within my remit. The Programme for Government includes a commitment to reviewing the public procurement process to make it more transparent and encourage greater participation from SMEs. Working towards this aim, and to set out the strategic direction of public procurement for the next five years I am developing a first...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (29 May 2025)

Jack Chambers: On the 13th of May 2025 the Department for the Environment, Climate and Communications wrote to my Department requesting my consent for a 1.4% pension increase effective from 1 January 2025 for pensions in payment and deferred pensions under the An Post Main Superannuation scheme. The rules of the scheme allow for the payment of discretionary pension increases subject to Ministerial...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (29 May 2025)

Jack Chambers: As the Deputy may be aware, public service staffing is largely managed through a policy of delegated sanction, which has been in place since 2015. Under this delegated sanction framework, Departments are permitted to fill vacancies through recruitment and/or promotion where they hold a recruitment license subject to remaining within the overall pay bill ceiling. As a consequence, vacancies at...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Functions (29 May 2025)

Jack Chambers: I thank the Deputy for her question. The Irish Government Economic and Evaluation service (IGEES), is an integrated, cross Government service that aims to support better policy formulation and implementation in the civil service through policy analysis and evaluation. Since its establishment in 2012, IGEES has expanded significantly, with over 300 economists and analysts now working...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: Deputy Neville is correct. We need to see a specific focus on basic, strategic infrastructure in the review of the national development plan. That is why the Government has set out prioritisation around transport, energy, water and housing in particular. I am familiar with Leixlip as it borders my constituency. Clearly the area has grown significantly, with infrastructure that was built...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (10 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: My Department has not employed any civil servants to carry out the duties of qualified architects or quantity surveyors during the years in question.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (10 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: As per Department of Finance letter of 10 December 2010, Government policy continues to be that starting pay on recruitment from open competition for all posts within the public service should be at the minimum of the relevant salary scale. All competition notices, advertisements and information booklets must specify that starting pay will be at the minimum of the scale. Such notices and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (10 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: I am informed by publicjobs, the centralised provider of recruitment and selection services in the civil and public service and a body under the aegis of my Department, that the latest open Executive Officer campaign was launched in June 2024. According to publicjobs, 812 applicants have been panelled to date for multiple locations, with 482 having been assigned already. A further 106 are...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Mining Industry (10 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment is responsible for the oversight and regulation of mineral exploration and mining activities in Ireland. Under the Minerals Development Acts, royalties from mineral extraction are negotiated on a case-by-case basis. The Minerals Development Act 1940 Section 26 (2) (c) provides that: “unless the Minister, with the concurrence...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (10 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: I am informed by the Public Appointment Service (PAS) that the AP 2024 competition was launched on the 4 October 2024, and the first panels were formed on the 15 April 2025. The assignment of candidates from these panels has commenced in recent weeks. The panels from this competition are expected to remain open until the 12 December 2025. AP 2024 Open ...