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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: That is correct.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: My understanding is that there is no difference. The current threshold is €650. We are reducing it to €600.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: No, there are not.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: That is there anyway.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: If it would be of help, I could, between this hearing and our next, provided Committee Stage continues to another day, provide a set of tables showing where we are and where we are going to.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The challenge concerns having many Acts that lay out various requirements for Members. Maybe a difficulty we are encountering here is that I need to make clearer where we are and where we are going. In advance of our meeting again, I will write to the committee, in particular, and lay out the current law, particularly on declarations, and how it will change after the implementation of this...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I will do that.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 7:In page 22, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following:"(14) In subsection (11)(f)—"political group of the European Parliament" means a group formed in accordance with the rules of procedure of the European Parliament; "political party" means a political party registered in the Register of Political Parties in accordance with section 25 of the Electoral Act...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Section 8 lays out what a private declarable interest is. It defines what an individual asset is and considers what a liability could be. It refers to an exemption in respect of a relative, except a spouse or child of the official, where the interest of that relative could be perceived to be inconsistent with the public official discharging his or her duties.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: They are dealt with in section 8(1)(b), which refers to assets. It reads, "any individual asset of the public official concerned ... but excluding pensions, or an interest in the private home of the official or of the official’s spouse".

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Section 7(9) deals with spouses and children. It refers to any interest being an interest of the spouse or a child of the public official concerned and of which the public official has actual knowledge that the interest could reasonably be perceived to be connected with the performance of his or her functions. It is also dealt with in section 8(10), which states: "The reference in subsection...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 8:In page 23, lines 34 and 35, to delete "European Parliament Elections Act 1997" and substitute "European Parliament Elections Act 1997)". Section 9(1) provides that nothing in the Act will prevent a person who is otherwise eligible to be a candidate in an election for either House of the Oireachtas, a local authority, or the European Parliament for a constituency in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Section 10 provides for the standards of integrity required of every public official. The key part of that is section 10(1), which makes it clear that it is the duty of every public official to maintain proper standards of integrity and concern for the public interest and to use resources effectively.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 9:In page 24, line 16, after "(1)" to insert "and any subsequent provision of this section". Section 11 prohibits a public official from seeking or extracting from any other person other than the official's employer any benefit, remuneration, fee, reward or other favour for anything done or not done by virtue of his or her employment. I have already spoken about the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 10:In page 24, line 17, after "subsection" to insert "or provision".

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 11:In page 25, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following:"(4) Subsection (3)is in addition to, and does not derogate from, a provision of any other enactment requiring a public official to disclose an interest of a kind specified in that other enactment or to take, or refrain from taking, action similar to what a public official must take, or refrain from taking,...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Section 13 provides for ad hocdeclarations by public officials and lays out procedures where a public official has actual knowledge that he or she is a connected person. It looks at whether they have a declarable interest or hold any office for which they do not get paid but which could be perceived as a conflict of interest and makes clear that in these cases, an ad hoc declaration must be made.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 12:In page 27, to delete line 12 and substitute "or any other person.".

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Section 15 deals with some of the issues we discussed earlier relating to land. This may be the space in which we deal with Deputy Calleary's concerns regarding how we define dealing or developing. Section 15 prohibits members of local authorities from acquiring or disposing of land or an interest in it or dealing in any professional capacity with land during their term of office and for...