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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: I move amendment No. 48:In page 54, lines 5 and 6, to delete “an investigation officer or”.

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. 49:In page 54, line 6, to delete “Chapter 3or 4, or” and substitute “Chapter 4,”.

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. 50:

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

Paschal Donohoe: Section 42 makes reference to the status of privilege. Subsection (1) provides for the absolute privilege of documents and reports of the commissioner, deputy commissioner, an authorised official or an investigation officer, wherever published. Statements made at meetings or sittings for inquiries or investigations by the commissioner, deputy commissioner and an authorised official or an...

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

Paschal Donohoe: That would mean that the privilege extended to a Member of the Oireachtas which, as I understand it, means that they cannot or should not say anything that would trigger legal action against them, would also be extended to the work of the commissioner or deputy commissioner. That might apply for example in respect of dealing with a matter that does not concern a Member of the Oireachtas, it...

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

Paschal Donohoe: We will do that in the next day or two.

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

Paschal Donohoe: I understood that what was requested was that if the Bill were to be enacted, the kinds of briefings that the Standards in Public Office Commission, SIPO, has performed in the past would continue to be available. I am sure they would be.

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

Paschal Donohoe: Of course.

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

Paschal Donohoe: Yes. We will do that. The matter for me to reflect on is whether the preliminary inquiry section of the Bill can be used to deliver our objective and address some of the points made there. I also gather that members want a reference to medical services that includes psychological or psychiatric ones. That is a particularly important point that I shall consider.

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

Paschal Donohoe: We will look at it but I believe that is not the case. We will certainly consider the matter and furnish information. We will furnish information on another matter. We will provide a consolidated table that compares where we are now with where we will be after the Bill is implemented. We will do so using each of the officials required in the legislation. It is difficult to explain the...

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

Paschal Donohoe: I shall provide the comparison table for our next meeting. At the start of the meeting I can explain how the scheme works, which will make a big difference to helping everyone to understand the Bill.

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

Paschal Donohoe: Yes. I hope we can enact the legislation by the summer but, in our efforts to do so, we will not reduce the time available between now and Report Stage. Chairman:Is that okay?

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

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Chairman.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Private Partnerships (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: PPPs offer an alternative model for delivering infrastructure that can be effective in particular circumstances. However, the long-term nature of the financial commitments arising under PPPs require that the use of such arrangements must be carefully planned in order to ensure that they are used to address infrastructural needs in a manner that is sustainable in the long term and which...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: At the outset the management of the tendering process for a public contract and the administration of the contract once awarded is a matter for each contracting authority. The complete data on public works contracts is held by the contracting authority concerned. It is the responsibility of individual contracting authorities to publish contract award notices following the signing of a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Submissions in relation to the mid-term review and the additional €2.65 billion funding available, were sought from Departments in January and are currently being received by my Department.  A public consultation process has also commenced, to ascertain the views of the public and key stakeholders on what our national infrastructure priorities should be, in light of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Administration (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The details sought by the Deputy are included in the minutes of the Forum which may be accessed on my Department's website. The minutes of the most recent meeting of the Forum with accompanying details of representatives in attendance are currently  awaiting  approval by the parties to the Forum and will then be published on the Department's website.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The High Level Working Group Forum is the formal representative body through which both management side and union side interests meet to deliberate on the particular issue in question.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 211 to 214, inclusive, together. The table following sets out for each Ministerial Vote Group gross voted capital expenditure for 2016, the published allocation for gross voted capital expenditure for 2017 and the updated ceilings for this expenditure category for 2018 and 2019 published in the Revised Estimates Volume (REV) taking into...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Private Partnerships Data (6 Apr 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: A list of PPP and Concession projects which are now either operational or in construction, by sector, is set out in the following table: Department/Agency Project Classification Operational From Health Primary Care Bundle DBFM 2017 OPW National Conference Centre DBFOM Aug-10 Justice Criminal Courts Complex DBFOM Nov-09 Courts Bundle DBFOM 2017 Education National Maritime...