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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Websites (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: My department and the Dept of Taoiseach currently employ the data analytics platform Matomo for website monitoring. Please find here attached the data requested for both departments for the twelve months from 11 June 2024 to 11 June 2025.Please note – In late 2024 the government analytics provider changed for operational reasons. Therefore the data for the period from 11 June 2024 to...

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

Jack Chambers: The NSSO is engaging directly with those identified by the reviews to date. For those impacted who owe money to the state the NSSO will be seeking collection of their tax liabilities.  Retirees who were working on a Reduced Working Hours/Shorter Working Year basis and in receipt of certain allowances at the time of retirement, are also impacted by the NSSO review.  In these...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: This is a matter for the Information Commissioner to answer, as the Information Commissioner is independent in the performance of his function as a matter of law and in practice.  Section 43(3) of the Freedom of Information Act, 2014 refers. The Commissioner has indicated that he is happy to engage directly and will provide a response on the matters raised.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 330 and 329 together. This is a matter for the Information Commissioner to answer, as the Information Commissioner is independent in the performance of his function as a matter of law and in practice.  Section 43(3) of the Freedom of Information Act, 2014 refers. The Commissioner has indicated that he is happy to engage directly and will provide a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: This is a matter for the Information Commissioner to answer, as the Information Commissioner is independent in the performance of his function as a matter of law and in practice.  Section 43(3) of the Freedom of Information Act, 2014 refers. The Commissioner has indicated that he is happy to engage directly and will provide a response on the matters raised.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: This is a matter for the Information Commissioner to answer, as the Information Commissioner is independent in the performance of his function as a matter of law and in practice.  Section 43(3) of the Freedom of Information Act, 2014 refers. The Commissioner has indicated that he is happy to engage directly and will provide a response on the matters raised.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: I wish to advise the Deputy that there were no such contracts awarded by my Department in 2024. The position with regard to the bodies under the aegis of my Department is set out in the table below. Please note that this reply does not include information in respect of the Public Appointments Service, which is finalising its reply and will shortly write directly to the Deputy in this...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: There are 401 current NSSO staff members who have applied for list based mobility.  During 2024, 30 people left the NSSO through Civil Service Mobility and 7 joined the NSSO through mobility.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Financial Management Shared Service Project (FMSS) will result in nearly 50 Public Services Bodies receiving a broad range of accounting and finance related services over the next number of years operating on a single finance shared service platform. This large transformation process will result in a greater standardisation of financial reporting, accounting processes and facilitate...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: The table below provides details of the project payments up to the end of May 2025: Supplier Name Pre-2021 €’000 2021 €’000 2022 €’000 2023 €’000 2024 €’000 2025 €’000 Total €’000 Purpose / Desired Outcome ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: The vast majority of externally procured services necessary to deliver the Financial Management Shared Service Project relate to the provision of technical and support services. Those services are now procured. Any further procurement, should it arise, would only arise in instances of work that is not included in the current contracts for services and cannot be completed by NSSO staff or...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Data Protection (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: . Year No. of data breaches reported to the Data Protection Commissioner 2025 (to date) 2 2024 1 2023 1 2022 1 2021 2 An audit of the NSSO was carried out by the Data Protection Commissioner in 2017/2018.  All recommendations were...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: The following data is presented in full-time-equivalent (FTE) terms and is based on data from Quarter 4 in each of the years presented. The table includes prison staff, of which there were 3,542 in quarter 4 of 2024, as they are included within the overall category of civil servants.  These staff are included in the relevant grades below.  Civil Service (FTE) by Grade...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Arts Council (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: As set out in the Guidelines for Appointments of CEOs of Non-Commercial State Bodies, it is a matter for each Parent Department to manage the appointments of CEOs and Directors to bodies under its aegis, including determination of remuneration and tenure, while having regard to the requirements set out in these Guidelines, with the consent of my Department.  The role of the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Judicial Reviews (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: I wish to advise the Deputy that a deferred reply will be issued to her in respect of this Parliamentary Question, in line with Standing Order 52(1)(b).

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of the Attorney General (18 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: We have committed in the Programme for Government to “update the Ethics in Public Office legislation”, which includes the Standards in Public Office Act 2001. This follows a wide-ranging review of the legislative framework that my Department undertook during the last Government, the Report and findings of which were published in February 2023. I am now moving to consider in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (18 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 53 to 62, inclusive, together. In relation to the review of CET and WHT, the NSSO review is ongoing. To date, this has identified a small number, approx. 30 cases, of retired senior Civil and Public Servants who are impacted by the late application of appropriate CET and WHT taxes. The individual liabilities range from a few hundred euro to approximately...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (19 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: A secondments provides opportunities for staff members to broaden their skills and continue their professional and personal development while retaining the right to return to their substantive or equivalent position in the sending organisation at the end of the secondment. It also provides an opportunity for the receiving organisation to fill a temporary position with both the receiving and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (19 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: The NSSO review has found that a number of civil service retirees who were both working on a reduced working hours basis and in receipt of pensionable allowances, were potentially underpaid. While a scoping exercise is underway, the review will not be grade specific and will focus solely on those individuals identified in this cohort of retirees. The NSSO is committed to ensuring...

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

Jack Chambers: The Civil Service Blended Working Policy Framework provides an overarching framework to inform Civil Service organisations when developing their own blended working policies and other related initiatives. My Department’s own internal Blended Working Policy is fully aligned with that framework. Meeting the business needs of the Department in order to deliver efficient, high-quality...