Results 181-200 of 9,090 for speaker:Jack Chambers

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Fire Service (20 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Single Public Service Pension Scheme is a statutory Public Service Career-Average Defined Benefit Pension Scheme, established on 1 January 2013 under the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012. The provisions of the Single Scheme are clearly set out in law and were enacted on 28 July 2012. All new-entrant public servants hired after 1 January 2013 are...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Appointments Service (20 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: The rates payable to retired Public Servants for serving on Interview Boards are in place since 1 July 2013. The rate payable is determined by the grade an individual served at the time of retirement. The Table below sets out the rates which are under review by my Department. Secretary General €377 per day Deputy Secretary €295 per...

Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2025: Motion (19 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the following Order in draft: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2025, copies of which have been laid in draft form before Dáil Éireann on 12th February, 2025.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Arts Council (19 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: My Department sanctioned the project with conditions in 2019. The Arts Council contacted the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer within my department in late 2023 to seek assistance with their planned ICT system. This assistance was provided in early-2024. My Department became aware of the extent of the financial loss when the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (19 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: Meeting their policy and service delivery obligations is a matter for each State Body. To support them in this regard, my Department publishes the Infrastructure Guidelines, with which all government departments and all public bodies in receipt of public capital funding must comply, as well as the Public Financial Procedures. My Department puts in place central procurement arrangements...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (19 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: I wish to advise the Deputy that a deferred reply will be issued to him in respect of these Parliamentary Questions, in line with Standing Order 51(1)(b).

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (19 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: In managing capital projects, my Department and the bodies under its aegis ensure that they are all evaluated and delivered in line with the Infrastructure Guidelines (which replaced the Public Spending Code) which set out value for money requirements for the evaluation, planning and management of public investment projects in Ireland. Capital spend is monitored and reviewed every...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: An Garda Síochána (19 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: No request has been received by the Department of Public Expenditure; National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to commence Garda Trainees on the first point of the Garda pay scale. In 2023, the Department of Justice and DPENDR agreed to increase the weekly Garda Trainee allowance from €184 to €305. Further agreement was reached between the Departments last year to increase...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flexible Work Practices (19 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: My Department’s Internal Blended Working Policy was finalised in August 2022 and is fully aligned with the overall Civil Service Blended Working Policy Framework. The Deputy will be aware that the Programme for Government includes a commitment to review this overall policy framework. Furthermore, the Deputy will also be aware that my Department developed and published a Blended...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (18 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: I wish to advise the Deputy that my neither Department nor any of the bodies under its aegis have received any such funding in the timeframe specified.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (18 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Single Public Service Pension Scheme was introduced in 2013 to place publicly-funded retirement benefits on a more sustainable footing. The Single Scheme is the default public service pension scheme for all new entrant public servants since 1 January 2013. The Single Scheme is underpinned by the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012 ('the Act'). In the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Disability Services (18 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: I am advised by the NSSO that it currently utilises accessibility software and platforms, such as Jaws, NVDA and Zoom Text, depending on the individual needs of its staff and customers and that it strives to improve the user experience of its customers and staff.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (18 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: The gender breakdown in my Department at the grades specified by the Deputy is set out in the table below: - Male Female Secretary General 1 - Assistant Secretary 4 4 Principal Officer 34 28

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Government Procurement (18 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Office of Government Procurement is responsible for establishing central purchasing arrangements for commonly required goods and services across 11 master categories of expenditure (Professional Services, Banking and Insurance, Consultancy and Advisory, Electricity and Gas, ICT, Facilities Management, Office Supplies, Travel Management, HR Services, Fleet, and Corporate Office Support...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Civil Service (13 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: I respectfully disagree because we have a blended working evaluation model and that is providing significant insights and evidence. It was published by my Department in July last year and is designed to assist organisations in effectively assessing the impact of blended working on the ways people work. The model provides for a mechanism for continuous improvement. This enables...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (13 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: It is on a public infrastructure Act.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Programme for Government (13 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: I thank the Deputy. The Government has committed to €165 billion in capital investment through the national development plan published in 2021. As a percentage of national income, annual capital investment is now among the largest in the EU. In 2025, €15 billion will fund vital infrastructure in areas such as housing, transport, education, enterprise, sport and climate...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (13 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: It is an absolute priority. On the specific items or examples the Deputy has raised, I have met with the chair of the OPW, along with the Minister of State, Deputy Moran, as regards the specific concerns relating to particular projects. In certain instances, members of the public have been extremely concerned, as indeed I think anyone in the political system is, about particular cost...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (13 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: I thank the Deputy and I welcome that. The Minister of State, Deputy Moran, and I are happy to work with everyone on a constructive basis on the common objective across our respective responsibilities in the Department. I take very seriously the concerns that have been articulated relating to value for money on particular projects, well-documented ones, many of which were unacceptable in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Civil Service (13 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Government has committed to review the Blended Working Policy Framework for Civil Service Organisations to consider how the implementation of this approach best delivers public services. My Department will consider the commitments and actions set out in the programme for Government which fall under its remit, including the commitments and actions relating to blended working. The...