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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (29 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: My Department published the Public Service Performance Report 2024 (available on gov.ie) last month. This is the 9th annual Public Service Performance Report (PSPR). The PSPR is a key policy document in the Budgetary Cycle. It is an annual review and comprehensive account of the delivery of public services against commitments set out in the Revised Estimates Volume (REV) for the preceding...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (29 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: Better Public Services, published in May 2023, is a strategy to transform the delivery of public services and build trust. The vision of the strategy is to deliver inclusive, high quality public service provision that meets the needs and improves the lives of the people of Ireland. The strategy is framed around three core themes within a Public Service Transformation Framework one of which is...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (29 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: As Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, I am responsible for setting the overall multi-annual capital expenditure ceilings for each Ministerial Vote Group as set out in the National Development Plan and Project Ireland 2040. My Department is also responsible for maintaining the national frameworks within which Departments operate to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Grant Payments (29 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: A number of Divisions in my Department provide grant funding under a number of programmes, as follows: Under the IGEES Research Fund, payments were made to other government departments: Year Total number of grant payments Value of Grant Payments 2020 2 €50,000 2021 1 €30,000 ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Inquiries (29 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: As the Deputy may be aware, the budgetary process involves a range of inputs and engagements before culminating in the expenditure allocations for 2026 which will be set out on Budget day in Autumn. These include the National Economic Dialogue which took place earlier in the summer as well as the publication of the annual Summer Economic Statement last week, in which my Department, along...

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

Jack Chambers: The National Development Plan (NDP) Review 2025 was published on Tuesday, 22 July 2025, in line with the Programme for Government commitment. The review provides us with the potential to completely transform our built environment through permanent, sustained and sustainable interventions focused on the medium and long-term health of our economy and our country. Government has set out...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Legal Cases (29 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Deputy may wish to note that rates for legal fees are set using the OGP competition guidelines and frameworks to determine which supplier is selected for the procurement of legal services. Monitoring of spend is handled within the relevant unit, in line with contractual management and governance requirements. The OGP standard contract is used for procurement. Audit responsibilities are...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Legal Services (29 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 797, 798, 799, 800 and 801 together. The Department engages with the Attorney General’s Office and the Chief State Solicitors Office for strategic legal advice on constitutional and legislative matters, and they provide legal representation in litigation. Additionally, the Department has a legal advisor seconded from the Attorney Generals office...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Legal Cases (29 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: In the last three years, there were no cases in my Department where the costs of a legal engagement exceeded the initial estimate. This is also the position for bodies under the aegis of my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Policies (29 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: Irish registered companies which have been dissolved can be restored to the Company Register up to 20 years from the date of dissolution. Under the State Property Act 1954, I have a number of responsibilities in relation to dissolved companies. There are no specific policies relating to alarm companies.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Correspondence (29 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: As Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, it is not my practice to use personal emails for Government business.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Communications (29 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: My Department provides a mobile phone and Whatsapp is installed on this phone. I use this device in line with my Departments Mobile Phone Policy and OGCIO’s ICT Acceptable Usage Policy.

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

Jack Chambers: The Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) Act 2004 establishes the legal framework governing recruitment and selection across the civil and public service. Under this Act:The Commission for Public Service Appointments (CPSA) was established as the independent regulator overseeing appointments made under the Act.The Public Appointments Service (PAS) was designated as the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (29 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: The final financial statements of the Escrow Fund along with a an explanatory cover note were published on my Department’s website on Monday, 14 July 2025 (www.gov.ie/en/department-of-finance/publications/cover-note -for-ireland-apple-escrow-fund-2024-financial-statements/). In summary, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) judgment of 10 September 2024 provided the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (29 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: The following travel and subsistence payments were made by my Department since 2021: Year Total amount spent on travel and subsistence 2021 €90,732.82 2022 €378,759.90 2023 €579,300.71 2024 €580,289.57 ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (29 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: The National Development Plan sets out indicative voted parameters at a Ministerial Vote Group level in Table 6. For my own Department, the following table sets out the capital split between the Office of Public Works (OPW) and the other votes within the Vote Group. The OPW provisions were agreed as part of the NDP negotiations with Minister Moran and his officials. ...

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

Jack Chambers: My Department promotes the use of public procurement as a strategic tool to achieve government objectives and wider societal benefit. We promote what is called strategic public procurement, an umbrella term which includes Green Public Procurement, Socially Responsible Public Procurement and Innovation Procurement. Last September, my Department held a workshop on strategic public...

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

Jack Chambers: In 2020, my Department used an OGP Multi Supplier Framework Agreement for the Provision of Market Research and Surveys Consultancy Service. In addition, the Office of Government Procurement has used Specified Social Clause, Qualitative Award Criteria and/or Selective criteria and/or specification requirements over the past five years. The Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB) has used such...

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

Jack Chambers: The National Development Plan (NDP) Review 2025 was published on Tuesday, 22 July 2025, in line with the Programme for Government commitment. The review will support investment in critical infrastructure, including water, grid and transport to support the delivery of housing and our long-term competitiveness. In the review, Government has set out annual sectoral allocations for 2026 to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (29 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: Panels are formed on a continuous basis in line with received and projected requests from Civil Service Departments and Bodies. There are currently 7 (seven) candidates available on the panel (these candidates were successful at interview stage and are awaiting requests to be submitted by Civil Service Departments and Bodies). Of these 7 (seven), 4 (four) are located in Mayo, 1 (one) in...