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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (7 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The issue raised by the Deputy is a matter for the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in the first instance. However, I am advised that Temporary Veterinary Inspectors are engaged as and when required by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to assist its permanent veterinary staff. I am further advised that they are not employees of that Department, rather they are...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (7 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 373 and 374 together. The 2016 Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies provides that the term of a contract of a CEO of a Commercial Semi State Company is normallylimited to a single contract period of between five and seven years but there is no maximum length of service for CEO's. The updated Code can be found at the following...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (2 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: You allowed time to Deputy Smith to put her point, Acting Chairman. When I am abroad I will be representing the country on St. Patrick's Day.

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (2 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I will be doing my best to represent the interests of citizens. I will be in Japan and Korea, but it does not matter where I am, I am always aware of the commitments I have. I am also aware of the commitments I have to those who work in public services and who have undergone tremendous changes in their circumstances to allow the economy and country to get to this point. A legal...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (2 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy and her group appear to be displaying what I can only call an unhealthy degree of interest in the potential leadership of this party. My interest is in representing the interests of those who work in the public services while balancing that against the other service needs of the country. Far be it from me to be out on my own: every day Deputy Bríd Smith comes to the House...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (2 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: -----asking me not to maintain the kind of order we have in terms of public wages to allow services to improve.

Other Questions: Public Sector Pensions (2 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I am unsure as to whether that is a question on ceramics or the public budgeting office. Is the Deputy asking me whether-----

Other Questions: Public Sector Pensions (2 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: -----we aim to set up that office?

Other Questions: Public Sector Pensions (2 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Yes.

Other Questions: Public Sector Pensions (2 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I answered questions on this earlier, but the Deputy was not present.

Other Questions: Public Sector Pensions (2 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: We have reached agreement on the level of staffing and the office's head's post will be advertised soon. The body will be set up by the Oireachtas with my support.

Other Questions: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (2 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: It is my strong awareness that the bill needs to be paid some time that led me to take such care with the use of public private partnerships and undertake to review the role they can play in infrastructure funding. In all of the enthusiasm around the use of PPPs, we must bear in mind that there remains a liability the Exchequer must meet. The fact it is not inputted directly on the State...

Other Questions: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (2 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Acting Chairman, surely I should have an opportunity to respond?

Other Questions: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (2 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I did not use up my time. Issues have been put to me by Deputy Wallace and I should have a chance to respond.

Other Questions: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (2 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: If the Chair allows Deputy Wallace to go over time in putting his questions, do I not have the right to respond?

Other Questions: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (2 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I should be allowed to reply.

Other Questions: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (2 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Acting Chairman. I am glad to hear Deputy Wallace agree with me on a point. Who says the new politics have achieved nothing? The Deputy has acknowledged I am correct in saying that if we had reduced current expenditure even more, he would have criticised us for it. To clarify, however, I did not say I was against PPPs. That seems clear given that we are availing of a large...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pensions (2 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I was not aware I had texted the Deputy.

Other Questions: Public Sector Pensions (2 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Hardly, Acting Chairman. We are having an exchange across the House. I am sure there will be as much predictability in what I am about to say as there was in what the Deputy just said. The public service pension reduction, PSPR, which was introduced on 1 January 2011, is the only measure that has decreased the value of public service pensions in payment since 2008. PSPR...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pensions (2 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy has attributed much to me that I did not say. What I did say is that future policy in regard to the linkages between public service pensions and pay will be dealt with by the Government in the context of negotiations we will have later this year. It is in recognition of the circumstances faced by the majority of pensioners that we implemented a faster reduction of the levy on...