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Transparency and Social Value in Public Procurement Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: I congratulate my colleague Deputy Farrell for bringing this Bill forward. It is significant legislation. It very much aligns with the work that the Deputy has done since she entered this Chamber in 2020. She is very much focused on the question of public procurement and driving economic and social change through the development of responsible public procurement systems. It is quite...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Sustainable Development Goals (26 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 217. To ask the Minister for Finance the specific steps his Department is taking to integrate the Sustainable Development Goals into the preparation of Budget 2026; how alignment with the 2030 Agenda is being assessed during the budgetary process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35065/25]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: I have a couple of questions to ask in the limited time available. On Vote 18, the National Shared Services Office, I have some questions relating to the pensions deduction issue and how that matter has been handled. The Minister announced on 4 June that he had an update, having originally been informed of an issue in the NSSO and the discovery that there have been issues around pensions...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: Yes. The Minister went on to say that the likelihood was that the number might be smaller. Has the Minister an update with regard to the scoping exercise and where we are at in terms of the number of individuals the Department believes at this point in time to have been affected? How does the Minister anticipate this process being rolled out over the next period?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: Can the Minister elaborate a little more? This is the first time he has had the opportunity to appear before the committee. Can he elaborate on how the issue was identified? He was at pains to say, of course, that no individuals who are affected are themselves at fault. Was this identified by an outside audit or by a number of individuals in a certain section of the NSSO? We see here in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: The contact was made with the NSSO a number of months ago or last year, and this then prompted a wider investigation or an audit, for want of a better description, by an individual in the NSSO to see if there were other people who were similarly affected. Is that it?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: There was a seven-year gap between the issue first coming to the attention of the NSSO by way of that particular appeal and somebody deciding in the NSSO that this is a bigger issue that warrants further investigation. Now, we are where we are and there are potentially, at the upper end, 13,000 retired civil and public servants and, potentially, officeholders who are affected by this. Who...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: Yes, it is for the Minister to deal with. I do not hold him personally accountable. That is what I am saying.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: Accountability should not begin and end with the Committee of Public Accounts. We need to do accountability better in this country, and I hope the Minister will accept that. Bringing a public servant or two in front of the Committee of Public Accounts to have them interrogated is not where accountability should begin and end. Certainly, that is not where it should end. Moving beyond the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (25 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 4. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of defence attachés accredited to Ireland, both resident and non-resident; when defence attachés were first accredited to Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34690/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Diplomatic Representation (25 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 18. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if, in light of the recognised importance of An Garda Síochána's police liaison officer network in embassies abroad, particularly in recent high-profile extradition operations, he is convinced that a similar network of military attachés in embassies of Ireland abroad would be beneficial for the State's security and defence...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Diplomatic Representation (25 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 19. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on the 2015 White Paper on Defence proposal to explore the creation of a military attaché network, a proposal which was recommended for urgent introduction by the Commission on the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34688/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Diplomatic Representation (25 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 20. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason it has taken his Department ten years to explore the creation of the military attaché network, while other Departments and agencies have significantly increased their global presence in embassies of Ireland abroad in the same timeframe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34689/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland (25 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance for the list of those in the media and other stakeholders that receive the Central Bank Quarterly Bulletin in advance of publication; to confirm the rules governing the provision of such reports to media or other stakeholders in advance of publication; how the release of market sensitive information that may be contained in such reports is regulated; if his...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (25 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in the context of teacher supply challenges, a date for the implementation of the Teaching Council's proposed creation of a timebound provision within the revised Teaching Council (Registration) Regulations 2016 (details supplied); if she is aware of the difficulties being caused to some by the continuing delay in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (24 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of an issue (details supplied) where SNAs moving from part-time roles to permanent staff roles are left without pay for the summer period preceding their first full-time term; if she and her Department have plans to address this anomaly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33905/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (24 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has a specific capital support scheme in place to provide financial assistance to schools to maintain and adapt long standing school gymnasia and other sports facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34335/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Local Authorities (24 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 495. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that Louth County Council has had to limit access to housing adaptation grants and related schemes; if there are plans to provide additional resources to Louth County Council and other local authorities to meet demand for such schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33788/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Policies (24 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 526. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether a policy change will be considered to provide the Revenue Commissioners with the power to collect levies under the provisions of the Derelict Sites Act 1990 from individuals or businesses with properties on local authority derelict sites registers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33981/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (19 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 237. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department is aware of concerns around VAT liabilities in an industry (details supplied); if his Department and the Revenue Commissioners have given any consideration to an approach taken to this matter by the national tax authority in another EU Member State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33270/25]