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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (20 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Public Procurement is governed by EU and National rules. The aim of these rules is to promote an open, competitive and non-discriminatory public procurement regime which delivers the best value for money. It would be a breach of the EU rules for a public body to favour particular candidates on grounds such as organisation size, locality, nationality, etc. and there are legal remedies which...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies Code of Conduct (20 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies applies to the Regulator of the National Lottery. The Regulator has furnished a report confirming that he complied with his  obligations under tax law for 2015. The Regulator has complied with his obligations under tax law for 2016 and this will be formally confirmed following completion of the audit of the Regulator’s...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Appointments to State Boards (20 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The boards of the Public Appointments Service (PAS) and the Institute of Public Administration (IPA) are the only State boards under the remit of my Department. No appointments were made to the PAS board in May or June 2017. There was one appointment made to the IPA board on 16 May 2017 in line with the Institute’s memorandum and articles of association. The...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Relocation (20 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to inform the Deputy that during the period from 2014 to date in 2017, in my Department there were seventeen staff who transferred to offices located outside the Dublin region. The information requested by the Deputy is laid out in the tables below. Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Core) Year Grade Region Relocation Cost 2014 Administrative Officer Limerick Nil...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: This is a Cabinet and a Taoiseach that will be working night and day, conscious of what needs to be done and what we need to achieve but also conscious of the journey that our country has made.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I begin by recognising the contribution and achievement of the former Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan. It is an honour to follow in his footsteps in leading the Department of Finance in addition to my current responsibilities at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. In the budget that I had the honour of introducing in the House with the former Minister, Deputy...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: He is not reciprocating. He is not responding.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: We are listening to the Deputy.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy is looking very beautiful.

Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: It is going to be challenging, because we have many different competing demands. We are working hard to see how we can identify new funding. We have already made progress on this by the identification of a further €2 billion between now and 2021 and 2022 and we are engaged in other pieces of work, for example, with the European Investment Bank, to see if there are additional ways of...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 12 and 13 together. The 10% reductions in starting pay for certain new entrants were introduced in January 2011 as part of the national recovery plan in order to reduce the public service pay bill by the then Government.  The issue of addressing the difference in incremental salary scales between those public servants who entered...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Let us talk about some figures amidst the Deputy's comments. From 1 January 2017, under the measures I agreed alongside the Minister for Education and Skills for INTO and TUI members, a new entrant will be paid a salary of €35,837. By 1 January 2018, when the second half of new entrant restoration has occurred, it will be considerably ahead of that. Amidst all the claims the Deputy...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: It is because the principle of fairness I must respond to is different from the one the Deputy is concerned with. I must be able to make sure I am fair to people who need services and to people who need housing and make sure we have the money available to build housing. The Deputy comes in here and deals with each issue in isolation. I must be able to deal with each matter collectively...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I am glad the Deputy acknowledged it there. If he can come up with a recipe for me as to how we can find €1.4 billion immediately while meeting all the other needs he raises with me on a regular basis, I look forward to hearing what that formula is. If he could also assure me it would not destroy the economy that produces all the tax to deliver the services we are talking about, I...

Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: There is a plan in place to respond to many of the different needs referred to by Deputy Durkan. As set out in the Estimates 2017, it is projected that capital expenditure will increase by almost 75% between 2016 and 2021 but as I have acknowledged in responses to earlier questions, we know there is a need to find new ways to invest in capital infrastructure in our schools, hospitals...

Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (1 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: With regard to the different questions the Deputy has put to me, due to the presence of the pearl mussel in some stretches of the river and its protected status, the scheme could not progress, which was the Deputy's point, until a proposal was submitted to the National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS. This was submitted in June of last year. The NPWS responded by stating that it had no...

Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (1 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: There are two questions there. From a funding point of view, €74,000 has been expended on this project to date. The project budget will be finalised before exhibition, but we expect that the approximate cost of this will be around €3 million. I can confirm to Deputy Moynihan that this is included in the financial profile of the OPW up to 2020. Assuming that the cost is in...

Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Submissions in relation to the mid-term review and the additional funding available were sought by my Department in January and have now been received. Submissions were not sought at that time by my Department directly from local authorities as we do not allocate funding directly to local authorities nor was it envisaged that the review would seek to determine the...

Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I do not think the process we have put in place makes a lie of us. The way in which we handle expenditure is by making the funding available to Government Departments, as the Deputy has just said. Government Departments either allocate that funding to local authorities or instigate work on their behalf. The process we put in place was publicly advertised. If a local authority wanted to...

Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Jun 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government will be the deciding body on how it handles funding between the local authorities for which it is responsible for. That being said, I always find it helpful to see submissions like this, and I will read them. It allows me to understand whether there are any particular projects out there or any particular needs that could...