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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (18 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The public service pay bill as set out in Budget 2024, inclusive of Local Authorities, is estimated at €26.8 billion. The estimated cost of providing for a flat €750, €1,000, and €1,500 increase in annualised basic salaries for full time public servants is set out in the table below. Increase Estimated Cost €750 ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, I have overarching responsibility for public service pension policy, including in relation to pension increases in the public service. As the Deputy may be aware, a frequently used method of post-retirement pension adjustment for retirees public service pension schemes is known as ‘pay parity’. This method of pension...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, I have overarching responsibility for public service pension policy, including in relation to pension increases in the public service. As the Deputy may be aware, a frequently used method of post-retirement pension adjustment for retirees public service pension schemes is known as ‘pay parity’. This method of pension...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy may be aware, I have overall policy responsibility in relation to public service occupational pension schemes payable to retired public servants. For all new entrants to the public service (including members of An Garda Síochána) on or after 6 April 1995 (the date of introduction of full social insurance for public servants who now pay Class A PRSI) and before 1...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Tax Data (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As per Sections 27, 28 & 29 of the Finance Act 2020, the carbon tax increased by €7.50 a tonne as part of Budget 2024. The increase on transport fuels was effective from 11 October 2023, while the increase on home heating fuels will not take place until 1 May 2024. In the Programme for Government - Our Shared Future, the Government committed to ring-fence all revenues raised...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, I have overarching responsibility for public service pension policy, including in relation to pension increases in the public service. As the Deputy may be aware, a frequently used method of post-retirement pension adjustment for retirees' public service pension schemes is known as ‘pay parity’. This method of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Awaiting reply from Department.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Awaiting reply from Department.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, I have overarching responsibility for public service pension policy, including in relation to pension increases in the public service. As the Deputy may be aware, a frequently used method of post-retirement pension adjustment for retirees public service pension schemes is known as ‘pay parity’. This method of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Awaiting reply from Department.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy may be aware, I have overall policy responsibility in relation to public service occupational pension schemes payable to retired public servants. Under the current rules pertaining to supplementary pensions, individuals are required to engage with the Department of Social Protection (DSP) to exhaust their Social Insurance entitlements in order to qualify for the payment of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, I have overarching responsibility for public service pension policy, including in relation to pension increases in the public service. As the Deputy may be aware, a frequently used method of post-retirement pension adjustment for retirees public service pension schemes is known as ‘pay parity’. This method of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Research and Development (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department has not commissioned any research through the North South Ministerial Council, Shared Island Initiative or other all-island arrangements since its establishment in 2011. My Department is co-sponsor, together with the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland, of the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB), a North South Implementation Body established under the Good Friday Agreement...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, I have overarching responsibility for public service pension policy, including in relation to pension increases in the public service. As the Deputy may be aware, a frequently used method of post-retirement pension adjustment for retirees public service pension schemes is known as ‘pay parity’. This method of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, I have overarching responsibility for public service pension policy, including in relation to pension increases in the public service. As the Deputy may be aware, a frequently used method of post-retirement pension adjustment for retirees public service pension schemes is known as ‘pay parity’. This method of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to advise the Deputy that a deferred reply will be issued to her in respect of this Parliamentary Question, in line with Standing Order 51(1)(b).

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy may be aware, I have overall policy responsibility in relation to public service occupational pension schemes payable to retired public servants. An occupational supplementary pension seeks to make up the difference between the occupational pension which would have been payable had that pension not been integrated, and the occupational pension in payment when combined with any...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Equal Opportunities Employment (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 391 and 392 together. As the Deputy may be aware, under the Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) Act 2004, the responsibility for recruitment in each sector of the Public Service is a matter for the relevant Minister. In the case of recruitment to the Civil Service, for which I have policy responsibility, the Public Appointments Service...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As you may be aware, I have overall policy responsibility in relation to public service occupational pension schemes. However, specific sectoral pension schemes in the wider public service are a matter for the Minister of the parent Department for the body concerned, in this case the Minister for Health. The specifics of some of the below material therefore relates to the history of the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, I have overarching responsibility for public service pension policy, including in relation to pension increases in the public service. As the Deputy may be aware, a frequently used method of post-retirement pension adjustment for retirees public service pension schemes is known as ‘pay parity’. This method of...