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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (16 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am informed that the Department of Education and Skills payroll migrated to Government Payroll Shared Services during the tax year 2015. Payroll Shared Services records indicate that P60s for the Department of Education and Skills payees were made available on 11 February 2016, in respect of tax year 2015, and were made available between 6 February and 10 February 2017, in respect of tax...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (16 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The detailed costings sought in this request would require detailed data on the position of staff on each salary scale across the public service and details of the standard working hours per week for each individual grade. This data is not available to the Department.  Pay band data available to the Department indicates that some 94% of all public service staff are on salary points...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Regulation of Lobbying (16 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015 provides that the Standards in Public Office Commission (Standards Commission) will be the Registrar of Lobbying and is responsible for establishing an online Register of Lobbying. The Standards Commission oversees the implementation of the register, monitors compliance with the Act, provides guidance and assistance and where necessary investigates and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Seirbhísí trí Ghaeilge (16 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Mar is eol don teachta, tá dualgas uileghabhálach orm i leith an chláir athchóirithe sa Státseirbhís agus sa tSeirbhís Phoiblí trí chéile. Tá tagairt shonrach don Ghaeilge sa chlár ‘Ár Seirbhís Phoiblí 2020’ sa rannóg 3 ‘Dea-Thorthaí a Sholáthar dár bPobal –...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (16 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department has not provided funding from its Vote to any organisations covered by this question.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme Review (16 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The Review of the Capital Plan was published on the 14 of September 2017, and a copy of the report was made available to each Deputy on that day. The review of the Capital Plan draws on an evidence base that included submissions by Departments and Offices, an extensive public consultation, and also an Infrastructure Capacity and Demand Analysis completed by the Irish Government Economic and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (16 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: An issue which has been under discussion by the Community Sector High Level Forum relates to community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors who have been seeking, through their union representatives, the allocation of Exchequer funding to implement a Labour Court recommendation relating to the provision of a pension scheme. At the April meeting of the Forum, my Department...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Road Network (16 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department has no responsibility for funding roads. The road Deputy Healy-Rae refers to appears to be a private or non-public road. I would therefore refer to the response to PQ 52581/17 given by Minister Michael Ring on 7 December 2017 concerning funding for private and non-public roads. My Department wrote to Local Authorities last August to establish the level of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (16 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: An issue which has been under discussion by the Community Sector High Level Forum relates to community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors who have been seeking, through their union representatives, the allocation of Exchequer funding to implement a Labour Court recommendation relating to the provision of a pension scheme. At the April meeting of the Forum, my Department...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Claims Agency Data (16 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to the Deputy's question, I have forwarded to him a report supplied to me by the State Claims Agency. I am advised that the information contained in this report has been extracted from the National Incident Management System. The report can be seen at

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Programme (16 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table. Legislation Title Year Duration No. staff required Costs Process Carried out by Dept or Outsourced Freedom of Information Act 2014 2 years 3 See next column Carried out primarily by the Department but also see below regarding Statute Law Revision ProgrammeIn addition to the legislation listed...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (16 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: In June 2011, the Government introduced a general pay ceiling of €200,000 for future appointments to higher positions across the public service and a general pay ceiling of €250,000 for future appointments to CEO posts within Commercial State Companies while recognising that in a small number of cases exceptions may be necessary. Other than the then proposed appointment of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Data (16 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I take it that the Deputy’s reference to pension ‘top ups’ relates to situations where extraordinary additions over and above the normal public service pension terms might have been conceded. I have not approved any such pension top ups for individual public servants. For the Deputy’s information, I would point out that there are a limited number of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Data (16 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table. Department / Body Percentage of employees with a disability under the definition in the Disability Act 2005 Department of Public Expenditure and Reform 4.9% Office of Government Procurement 5.1% Office of the Ombudsman 3.17% Institute of Public Administration 0% State Laboratory 5.43% (2016)...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Communications (16 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department has in place an industry leading email security appliance which filters emails based on industry standard security terminology which includes Profanities.  All incoming emails are automatically scanned by the email security appliance for terminology, including profanities, and if positive the email is quarantined and the recipient is notified that their email has been...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Strategies (16 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table. Initiative Purpose of the Initiative Method of Promotion Expenditure in 2017 Open Data Initiative Public Consultation (on draft Open Data Strategy 2017-2022) which aims to increase availability of public data and promote its usage Online via D/PER website and the national Open Data portal and via twitter...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: My apologies for that. I will make sure that, in all my other appearances before the committee in the coming year, the members will get my statement when they need it and when I have seen it, as has been the case in the past. I thank the committee for the opportunity to be here to deal with both the tracker mortgage issue and the Our Public Service 2020 initiative. I acknowledge the work...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: In answering the Deputy's question, I will reiterate a point I made when I debated this matter with him and the rest of the committee towards the end of last year, namely, that there are two issues that I find unacceptable about the way this matter has been handled to date. The first is the root cause of this, that is, the behaviour that led to people being treated wrongly and unfairly at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: On the deadline I have set in regard to conclusion of the matter overall, I have referred to March in the different statements I have made on the matter but I stress that my strong view is that everybody should be given both redress and an initial offer of compensation as soon as possible. From the information I have received from a number of the banks, they are meeting the deadlines set...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am speaking as a Minister who has a particular responsibility for the agency that is carrying out the investigation into this matter, namely, the Central Bank, which is independent of me. What I cannot do at this stage is prejudge the ruling or findings it may make but I will make two points. On foot of all I have seen on this matter in recent months, as well as my engagement with the...