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Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Priorities and Provisions in the Review of the National Development Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (24 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: I thank Deputy Clendennen. I note his interest in the N52 as well. There are three different examples there.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Priorities and Provisions in the Review of the National Development Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (24 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: I mean some of them are different. The Department of education is efficient at delivery when it decides a particular project will happen. When it does that, it typically moves quickly and it happens relatively quickly. The issue is the pipeline is extensive and it cannot do everything every year so there is a natural delay. It is about managing that sequentially because there have to be...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Priorities and Provisions in the Review of the National Development Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (24 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: That is important too. We have committees here that will rightly scrutinise everything but if we are proactive and delivery is the number one priority, that means we have to rebalance risk in how we make decisions and how quickly people make decisions. We have to support people in doing that in key positions of influence. Otherwise, we will have continued endless process which ultimately...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Priorities and Provisions in the Review of the National Development Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (24 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: On the disability sector, some of what the Deputy referenced there is very much connected to current expenditure and what we allocate to the disability side of that directly. The direct funding from the Department of disability is into the HSE and primarily relates to some of the supports for therapeutics and other supports. In the context of her overall envelope, the Minister, Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2026 (1 Oct 2025)

Jack Chambers: I am aware of the issues raised by the Irish Farmers Association. As part of the budgetary process, I met with them and they raised the concerns of their members as outlined in their comprehensive Pre Budget submission. Many of the matters raised in the submission are primarily policy matters for the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Marine, with whom I am working closely on preparing the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (30 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: Please find related partial figures in answer to this question around cloud storage solutions costs. My Department is in the process of collating and finalizing these figures which will be made available to the deputy in due course. These are incurred by the Office of Government Chief Information Officer in delivering digital public services such as gov.ie. ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (30 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: Public Procurement is governed by EU legislation and national rules/guidelines. EU Directive 2014/24/EU on public procurement (goods, services and works) has been transposed into Irish Law in the form of corresponding Regulations - S.I. No. 284/2016 - European Union (Award of Public Authority Contracts). My Department has published the Public Procurement Guidelines for Goods and Services to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (30 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation published the Model Publication Scheme in 2016. In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2014, it sets out requirements for the publication of information by FOI bodies routinely outside of the FOI process. As Deputy Dolan has stated, this includes the quarterly publication of payments and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (30 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: The National Development Plan (NDP) Review 2025 was published in July and is the largest ever capital injection in our economy in the history of the State. The Review sets out a total public capital investment of €275.4bn over the period to 2035. This comprises €202.4bn in Exchequer Voted capital expenditure from 2026 to 2035. Of this, €102.4bn is being allocated for...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (30 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: The retirement age policy in respect of firefighters is the remit of the Minister for Housing Local Government and Heritage. In August 2024, the mandatory retirement age for firefighters was extended to age 62. The retirement age policy in respect of members of An Garda Síochána and prison officers is the remit of the Minister for Justice, and for members of the Defence Forces,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Language (30 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: Each year as part of the budgetary process my Department sets the overall expenditure ceilings for each Ministerial Vote Group approved by Government. These are laid out at Vote level in the Budget day Expenditure Report published in October with further detail provided in the Revised Estimates for Public Services published in December. Following the allocation of each Ministerial...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (30 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: Professional Added Years (PAY) schemes apply to certain members of pre-existing public service pension schemes recruited by way of open competition to professional, technical or specialist permanent posts in the civil/public service. The ‘New Entrant Scheme’ was introduced under Circular 8/2005 and applies to persons appointed to established professional, technical or...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (30 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 357, 358 and 359 together. The Senior Posts Remuneration Committee (SPRC) was established by Government in March 2024. The SPRC was requested to perform a review of the remuneration arrangements for the CEOs of Commercial State Bodies (CSBs). The SPRC made a number of findings and 17 recommendations. The report outlines the importance of fair and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (30 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: Gross capital funding of €16.585 billion has been allocated to Departments in 2025. The following table sets out the allocations for each Ministerial Vote Group. Ministerial Vote Group 2025 Allocations €,m Agriculture, Food and the Marine 337 Children, Disability and Equality Group 100 Climate,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (30 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Summer Economic Statement (SES) was published in July and set out a revised capital ceiling of €17.1 billion, an uplift of €2.2 billion over the original capital ceiling for 2025. This increase in the capital ceiling allows for planned additional spending for 2025 to fund in-year decisions and to further support the delivery of key social and economic priorities. Of the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Programme (30 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: The main purpose of the Civil Service Regulation and Public Service Management (Amendment) Bill is to amend the Civil Service Regulation Act 1956 and the Public Service Management Act 1997 to provide that disciplinary action up to and including dismissal in the Civil Service can be assigned below the level of the head of the organisation (Appropriate Authority) and other miscellaneous...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (2 Oct 2025)

Jack Chambers: The National Development Plan (NDP) Review 2025 was published in July and is the largest ever capital injection in our economy in the history of the State. The Review sets out a total public capital investment of €275.4bn over the period to 2035. This comprises €202.4bn in Exchequer Voted capital expenditure from 2026 to 2035. Of this, €102.4bn is being allocated...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (2 Oct 2025)

Jack Chambers: The necessity of investment in critical infrastructure to allow for the further delivery of housing and to support international competitiveness was the core objective of the recently published NDP review in July 2025. The review specific targets the critical sectors of Energy, Water and Transport as the sectors on which all further development is dependent. Within these sectors, special...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (2 Oct 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 272 to 274, inclusive, together. As per the Programme for Government, a new Infrastructure Division has been established in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. This Division, led by a Deputy Secretary General, is focused on how the provision of critical infrastructure can be accelerated. The Division is staffed by a combination of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Appointments Service (2 Oct 2025)

Jack Chambers: An Interdepartmental Competition for Promotion to Higher Executive Officer (HEO) positions with fluency in the Irish language in the Civil Service was launched on 3 November 2023 and is currently planned to run until 30 November 2025. There were 80 applications with 5 people being panelled and assigned in locations in Dublin and Galway. Recognising the vital role of Irish-language...