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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Act 2024 established the Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund (ICN Fund). The purpose of ICN Fund is to support the economy in times of exceptional need and to support Ireland’s transition to a low carbon economy through the funding of designated environmental projects. A total of €2 billion will be invested...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Measures (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Programme for Government commits my Department to review the Infrastructure Guidelines and to create a Public Investment Act, requiring sponsoring agencies to meet timelines on development of project appraisals and other evaluations so as to reduce delays in decision making and embed value for money across all capital projects. In April, a series of actions were agreed by Government...

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

Jack Chambers: In 2023, my Department refreshed the requirements for capital projects in the Infrastructure Guidelines, reducing the number of approval stages prior to implementation from 5 to 3 and streamlining the requirements for major projects, raising the level of cost at which a project is considered a major project to €200m. This allows for projects below this limit to proceed more speedily...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jul 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 5 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 parameters,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: Government has prioritised an early review of the National Development Plan, to be published in July. The Programme for Government recognises that delivery of essential infrastructure is a key driver in attracting and retaining investment in Ireland, growing our economy, fostering regional development, delivering on our housing targets as well as achieving our ambitious climate goals. The...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Economic Data (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: I was pleased to welcome the publication of the IMF’s annual review of the Irish economy, the Staff Report for the 2025 Article IV Consultation, on June 11th this year. Ireland’s 2025 IMF Article IV engagement was set against the backdrop of Budget 2025, a Budget framed in the context of a continued need to improve public services and accelerate infrastructure to support a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: As Minister for Public Expenditure Infrastructure Public Service Reform and Digitisation, 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...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: As Minister for Public Expenditure Infrastructure Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, 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...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: I would like to inform the Deputy that the processes for government projects as set out in Circular 14/2021 from my Department, remain robust and fit for purpose.   In recently quoted examples the underlying issue was failure to execute in accordance with the circular, including use of appropriately skilled staff and internal project governance.  I have asked my officials to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jul 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 Procurement Contracts (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: 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, my Department is developing a first national public procurement strategy. The strategy has been subject to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: As Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, 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, within the allocations agreed under the National Development Plan (NDP),...

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

Jack Chambers: As Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitisation 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...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: €106.4 billion in gross voted funding is being provided in 2025 to deliver on Government priorities and commitments, including continuing the delivery of a National Development Plan (NDP) which is providing the vital infrastructure we need to support our future economic and social progress. This funding is also providing appropriate income supports for better outcomes in tackling...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: In line with the commitment in the Programme for Government, my Department has prioritised an early review of the National Development Plan, which will be published in July. The aim of the NDP Review is to improve our infrastructure, particularly, water, energy and transport. Prioritisation of these sectors is necessary to enable the delivery of hundreds of thousands of additional homes and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Programme for Government has prioritised an early review of the National Development Plan (NDP), to be published this July. The aim of the Review is to improve our infrastructure, particularly water, energy, transport and housing. Improvements to this supporting economic infrastructure are necessary to enable the delivery of hundreds of thousands of additional homes and to boost our...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jul 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 Sector Pay (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: The issues the Deputy is referring to are in the main not overpayments, but a delay in addressing taxes due on retirement and anomalies in deductions of various pension contribution. A review in relation to Ministers who may have been impacted regarding pension contributions and ASC has been completed. Those identified are being contacted and engagement is ongoing. I understand a number of...

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

Jack Chambers: Under Section 17 of the Civil Service Regulation Act 1956, the Minister for Public Expenditure; Infrastructure; Public Service Reform and Digitalisation has a number of responsibilities for the Civil Service including: the regulation and control of the Civil Service, the classification, re-classification, numbers and remuneration of civil servants, and the fixing of the terms and...