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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (15 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to the Deputy’s question, the value of the contracts for goods and services with the companies HP Inc.; HP Enterprise; DXC Technology in the period in question are listed in the following table: Year Company Amount 2013 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Nil Hewlett Packard Inc. Nil DXC Technology Nil 2014 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Nil Hewlett Packard Inc. Nil DXC...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Appointments Service (15 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware, the Public Appointments Service (PAS) is an independent statutory body which provides professional recruitment and selection services to the civil and public service. As with all assessment tests, test providers are selected following a competitive public procurement exercise. PAS continually monitor all their processes with regard to competitions to ensure as...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Data (15 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department's Brexit/EU/North South Unit has primary responsibility for North-South issues across the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. It is comprised of six staff, along with an attaché based in the Permanent Representation in Brussels. The Unit is responsible for the EU-funded PEACE and INTERREG programmes and for matters relating to the North South Ministerial Council....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (15 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I would refer the Deputy to my response to PQ 54985/17 of 16 January 2018.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (15 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware, the Public Appointments Service (PAS), is the independent recruiter of people for the civil service through open and interdepartmental competitions. While there are many factors affecting recruitment the most important are the expected number of staff who will leave in the near future, existing panels in place and the demand for staff based on the work to be...

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Deputy Mattie McGrath has just made a number of charges about Mr. O’Brien.

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: It is up to the Ceann Comhairle to adjudicate on whether they are appropriate and are the kinds of points that should be made on the Order of Business. I will leave that with him. With regard to how we are dealing with these matters, we are interested in trying to understand further what has happened here.

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: We are trying to deal with issues regarding the safety and health of our citizens, the women who are scared today. That is the agenda of the Government.

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: It is not our agenda to stand up here on a daily basis seeking to gain political advantage from great private tragedy and anguish.

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: What always seems to be missing every time this issue is raised is the fact that, as part of the proposal being put to the Government, those who are interested in making what is proposed happen require a significant degree of capital to do it. This is at the heart of why the Department of Finance has to consider this matter very carefully. It is not stuck; it is being reviewed and analysed,...

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: My understanding of what will happen is laid out in the text of the public service stability agreement. It states the Public Service Pay Commission has given an undertaking to issue a report on recruitment and retention issues, focusing initially on the health service, as the Deputy said. The Department of Health and I have made a submission to the commission, as has the INMO. I expect the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Yes.

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I know this is a very important matter but I am not in a position to give a full answer to the Deputy on it today. Perhaps if he tables a topical issue, with the consent of the Ceann Comhairle, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine can deal with the matter.

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy is well aware of the legal framework and precedent in respect of discussions which take place at Cabinet. This Cabinet had conducted many discussions on many matters over the last two years that have not reached the public arena and not been the subject of inquiry and debate. The Taoiseach has, on a number of occasions, outlined the responsibilities of Cabinet members in respect...

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I understand that the Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016, if that is what the Deputy is referring to, is on Committee Stage currently. I understand a number of amendments are being prepared and that work is under way on those amendments currently.

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: There is no evidence currently available to us that there is any difference in how different laboratories are performing in respect of the analysis and reviewing of these tests.

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: On the question Deputy Smith has put to me, if the HSE made that commitment to the Deputy or to an Oireachtas committee it should supply that information. After these questions I will contact the HSE to see where it stands. On the broader charge the Deputy has put to us in respect of how we mind our citizens and how we mind the health of women today, I have already outlined to a number of...

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: It is correct that I met the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, some weeks ago while I was in Bulgaria at a meeting of European finance ministers. The Tánaiste is in the UK today and will also meet the Chancellor and the Minister for the Cabinet Office, David Lidington, to review where negotiations stand and once again articulate the Irish national interest in the...

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Many of the issues at the epicentre - to use the Deputy's phrase - of how the United Kingdom will leave the European Union are crystalised in the very issues with which the Government and Dáil are dealing. Many of the issues that are at the heart of Britain's future relationship with the European Union in respect of customs policy, access to the Single Market and the role of the European...

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy made the point that he found it difficult, or even impossible, to imagine what it would be like to walk the journey Emma is walking this morning and how we would deal with and what we would say to those whom we love and to our own families. We often come across tragic situations, but our ability to understand them or to walk in the shoes of those affected is so constrained because...