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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (10 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 434, 435 and 437 together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (10 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Programme for Government sets out the clear ambition to prioritise the delivery of transformative, critical and growth-enhancing infrastructure over the next five years. To support these goals, Government has prioritised an early review of the National Development Plan, which is being led by my Department. From February, officials in my Department set about identifying the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (11 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: Contact details for the bodies under our aegis are as follows: Name of Body E-mail Address Phone line/numbers National Shared Services Office oireachtas@nsso.gov.ie +35317738887 State Lab SLOireachtasRequests@statelab.ie 01 505 7000 Public Appointments Service ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (11 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: I wish to advise the Deputy that neither my Department nor any of the bodies under its aegis had any capital projects of the nature specified.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (11 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department had no projects of the nature specified in the year in question. With regard to the bodies under the aegis of my Department, information is provided below in respect of two relevant projects in the Office of Public Works. Description of Contract (2023) Initial Price Final Price Athlone Garda Station:...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (11 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Single Public Service Pension Scheme is a statutory Public Service Career-Average Defined Benefit Pension Scheme. It was 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...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (11 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: As indicated in my previous response, while balanced regional development is a key priority of this Government and is at the heart of Project Ireland 2040, as Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitisation I am responsible for setting the overall capital allocations across Departments, including in the recent Budget, and for monitoring monthly...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (11 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: As indicated in my previous response, substantial information on capital infrastructure projects is made available to both Dáil Éireann and to the wider public. 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 aegis. Government...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (11 Jun 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 52(1)(b).

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (12 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: In outlining the members of the Government in the Dáil on 23 January, 2025, the Taoiseach announced that I would be appointed as Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation. I wish to advise the Deputy that the Taoiseach signed the Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (Alteration of Name of Department and Title...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Appointments Service (12 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: I am informed by the Public Appointment Service (publicjobs), the centralised recruiter for the Civil and Public Service and a body under my Department’s aegis that, as recruitment competitions for many positions across the Civil and Public Service usually attract a high number of applicants, candidates are required to undertake a range of assessments and exercises over several...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (12 Jun 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 52(1)(b)

Presentation and Circulation of Revised and Second Further Revised Estimates: Motion (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: I move: That, notwithstanding Standing Order 222 of the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to Public Business or the Resolutions of the Dáil of 1st April, 2025 and 21st May, 2025, the following Revised Estimates and Second Further Revised Estimate for Public Services for the year ending 31st December, 2025, be presented to the Dáil and circulated to members on 17th...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: Public procurement is governed by EU legislation and national regulations with the aim of promoting an open, competitive and non-discriminatory public procurement regime that delivers the best value for money for the State. All Irish public bodies are obliged to spend or invest public funds with care, and to obtain optimal value for money in accordance with the Public Spending Code. The...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: Departments and Offices are permitted to carryover unspent capital, up to a maximum of 10 per cent of their Voted capital, into the following year. Statutory provision for capital carryover by way of "deferred surrender" to the Exchequer is made under Section 91 of the Finance Act 2004. Capital carryover is an important technical element of the multi-annual capital envelope system which...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: As part of the oversight and monitoring role of my Department, officials collate public service staffing data on a quarterly basis. The table below shows the total full-time equivalent (FTE) end-year numbers, as supplied to my Department by the relevant Departments, in this capacity. Growth in Public Service Numbers (FTE) by Sector2019-2024 ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Health Services (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service and Reform and Digitalisation works from the centre of Government to drive the delivery of better public services, living standards and infrastructure for the people of Ireland. As highlighted in my Department's Statement of Strategy (2023 to 2025), it aims to promote effective corporate governance and accountability...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: The NSSO review has identified that some members of the current and previous Governments and a number of serving office holders are impacted. I understand that the NSSO has commenced engagement with those impacted.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: The NSSO’s review into all three cohort impacted is ongoing and final figures have not yet been determined.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: The NSSO has identified an issue with the calculation of pension entitlements for retirees who were working on a Reduced Working Hours/Shorter Working Year basis and in receipt of certain allowances at the time of retirement.  The NSSO review is underway to identify those impacted; in these instances individuals will receive, in most cases, small pension increases. The NSSO is...