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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Investigations (23 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The Programme for a Partnership Government contains a commitment to "thoroughly investigate the German Sparkassen model for the development of local public banks that operate within well-defined regions". My Department, along with the Department of Rural and Community Development, are the Departments tasked with the responsibility for fulfilling this commitment. Local public banking is...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Bodies Data (23 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Since 2011, one body under the aegis of my Department has been disbanded. Sealuchais Árachais Teoranta (SAT), a statutory company under the Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1985 acted as a non-trading holding company for Icarom plc (formerly the Insurance Corporation of Ireland) which was under administration. The two Directors of the company were officials of my Department....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Personal Injury Claims (23 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Of the seventeen bodies under the aegis of my Department, I am informed that fourteen have had no claims and have made no payments in respect of personal injury claims in the period requested. It was not possible for two bodies to respond to this information request in the time available and therefore I will make arrangements to provide a response in line with Standing Orders....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Levy (23 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I take it the Deputy is referring to the stamp duty levies applying to the assets of funded pension arrangements introduced in 2011 to pay for the Jobs Initiative, the chargeable persons for which are the trustees of pension schemes and others responsible for the management of pension fund assets. The stamp duty levy on pension schemes was introduced in the wake of the financial crash...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Exchequer Returns (23 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The effective management of the delivery of public services within budgetary allocations is a central responsibility of each Minister and their Departments on an ongoing basis. In relation to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, the underspends for 2015 and 2016 are set out in the Appropriation Accounts, audited by the Comptroller & Auditor General (C&AG),...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Compensation (23 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: This case relates to an application under the Garda Compensation 1941 Acts – “Compensation Section” - Michael Kilroy vthe Minister for Finance. The role of the Department of Justice and Equality in such cases is to decide if applications of Gardaí (who sustained malicious injuries in the course of their duties) are eligible to be awarded. There are also...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Data (23 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The Public Service Stability Agreement (PSSA) 2018-2020, which was ratified by Government and by public service trade unions and representative associations, sets out the policy on public service pension increases adopted by Government for the duration of that agreement (to end-2020). Specifically, section 6.2 of this agreement indicates that pension increases in the public service...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts Data (23 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department or any of the bodies under its aegis do not have any contracts with the company named in the Deputy’s question.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Claims Agency Data (23 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to the Deputy's question, I am advised by the State Claims Agency that the report, available at the following link, has been extracted from the National Incident Management System. .

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Claims Agency Data (23 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to the Deputy's question, I am advised by the State Claims Agency that the report, available at the following link, has been extracted from the National Incident Management System. .

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Bodies Data (23 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to the Deputy’s question the first table details the agencies, boards or other bodies under the aegis of my Department that have been disbanded or amalgamated or whose functions were subsumed back into this Department since 2011. The second table details the bodies set up by this department since that date.   Agencies, Boards or other Bodies disbanded, amalgamated or...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Personal Injury Claims (23 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The material requested by the Deputy is currently being collated by the State Claims Agency, on behalf of my Department. Given the large volume of Parliamentary Questions currently with the State Claims Agency, I am advised that the material is not yet available.  It will be completed shortly and my Department will then provide the response directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Legal Cases Data (23 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am informed that Departments receive queries/complaints from time to time during the procurement process but these are usually resolved either during the procurement process itself or at pre-litigation stage. However, the following are a list of procurement proceedings (includes ongoing and concluded cases) which have been brought against Government Departments in the last...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Legal Cases (23 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am informed that, aside from the Student Transport v. Department of Education case (2011/1043/JR) (see the response to Question No. 198 for a list of ongoing and concluded procurement cases against Departments over the past five years), the Office of Government Procurement (OGP) is not aware of any other cases against Departments where an order for security for costs was made. As a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pension Provisions (18 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The high level forum met before Christmas. My officials who were participating in it shared the scoping exercise which was undertaken with the union representatives. It outlines how many people work in the sector, the different costs involved and some of the difficulties. I understand that the unions are considering the matter and that the high level forum will meet again.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pension Provisions (18 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The forum will meet again to engage with unions on the matter. 12 o’clock The Deputy is right to say that this matter has been around for quite a while. One of the reasons for that is that it cuts to the heart of a principle regarding who the State does and does not employ. This is a matter that Fianna Fáil grappled with when it was in government many years ago when the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Retirements (18 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy for the support he has offered to this policy. To answer his questions, if I did not have interim arrangements in place I would be accused of having announced a policy that is not going to happen. We have to legislate to make it happen. The legislation is being drafted at the moment, and my officials are working as hard as possible to get the work done. Its appearance...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Retirements (18 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am not sitting on any legislation on this issue. The policy on the minimum retirement age across the entire economy is a matter for either the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Humphreys, or the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty. We are not seeking to incentivise people to make a choice. We are simply recognising the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Expenditure (18 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The effective management of the delivery of public services within budgetary allocations is a key responsibility for each Minister and their Department on an ongoing basis. My Department is in regular contact during the year with all other Departments and offices to ensure that expenditure is being managed within the overall budgetary parameters. Information in regard to gross and net voted...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Expenditure (18 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: As regards the Deputy's first question, as we are currently in mid-January I am not yet in a position to tell the Deputy the net amount that will be left once the underspends in individual Departments are offset against the additional costs to which I referred. However, I expect that the net underspend will be a very small amount of the total €46.27 billion the State spent last year....