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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (21 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 622 and 623 together. After full implementation of the Lansdowne Road Agreement, the full year cost of unwinding the remaining FEMPI measures for public servants earning less than €65,000 gross per year is approximately €780m plus PRSI. The full year cost of unwinding the remaining FEMPI measures for public...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (21 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I refer the Deputy to my answer to PQ Ref: 10498/17 on the 28th of February 2017.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (21 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 625 and 626 together. The most recent aggregate data (based on pay bands) available to the Department indicates that some 93% of all public service staff are on salary points in excess of €25,000 per annum.  The commonly referenced living wage rate of €11.50 per hour, based on the Civil Service 37 hour standard net...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (21 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: As I advised the Deputy in my reply to Question No. 368 on 18 October 2016 (ref. 30893/16), following the application of the provisions of the Lansdowne Road Agreement, underpinned by the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2015, the following salary rates will apply to Members of the Oireachtas:   - 1 April 2017 1 January 2018 TD...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (21 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Based on the latest data available to the Department the costs are estimated as follows: Number of Public Servants (FTE) earning under €30,000 Cost of 1% increase Cost of 2% increase Cost of 3% Increase Cost of 5% Increase 39,483 €11m €22m €33m €55m

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Allowances (21 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I have reviewed the records of overnight expenses paid to Minsters and Ministers of State who have served in this Department since 2011 and I can confirm that none have been paid expenses in respect of an overnight in Dublin.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (21 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Public Appointments Service (PAS) is the only State Board under the remit of my Department. I can confirm that no public servant on the PAS Board is given any payment for their services on that board.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (21 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: In my role as Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, I have overarching policy responsibility for workforce planning in the Civil Service, including recruitment. The initiation of a recruitment campaign for any particular civil service grade is determined by such factors as identified workforce planning requirements and the need to establish priorities for targeted recruitment...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (21 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Civil Service Arbitration Board has made its report on this matter which I have accepted.  This report was laid before the House on 10 March 2017 and is available on the Oireachtas website at .

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (21 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: As the process is ongoing and we are not in a position to release further information at this point in time.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Data (21 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to the Deputy's question, the subject matter of Parliamentary Question Number 270 of 23 February, 2017 did not relate to public affairs connected with my Department or to matters of administration for which I am officially responsible (including bodies under the aegis of my Department in respect of Government policy).  The question fell within the responsibilities of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Schemes (21 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Revised Civil Service Spouses and Children's Pension Scheme (the "Revised Scheme") was introduced in 1984 as a result of an agreed recommendation made by General Council under the Scheme for Conciliation and Arbitration for the Civil Service. The recommendation was regarding the amendment of certain provisions of the Civil Service Spouses and Children's Contributory Pension Scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Legal Costs (21 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to the Deputy's question, the table outlines the total amount spent on legal advice by my Department since 2015: Year  Name Amount 2015  Philip Lee Solicitors €5,535 ByrneWallace Solicitors  €123,221 *Consultant R. Humphreys  €54,312 *Consultant C. Kennedy  €57,530 €240,598  2016  ByrneWallace...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (21 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The recruitment of staff in Non-Commercial State Bodies (NCSBs) is a matter for the management of the Bodies in consultation with their parent Department in the first instance. This Department does not have a role in determining the method through which staff are recruited. It is understood that NCSBs may, if they wish, use the Public Appointments Service (PAS) for recruitment purposes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 11 - Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (9 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the committee for giving me an opportunity to attend today's meeting. I will speak briefly on my overall Vote before facilitating as many questions as possible. As the Chair has said, this Vote group comprises the Votes for the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, the Office of Government Procurement and the National Shared Services Office; the Votes for the offices under...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 11 - Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (9 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy for his question and will share the figures with him. I will start, however, by making clear that all the tribunals and commissions of inquiry that took place were pieces of work that needed to be done. They include the investigation on a very important matter, whose terms of reference are currently being settled by the House. All this work needed to be done in the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 11 - Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (9 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: As I said to the Deputy earlier, I want to be very careful, particularly in the context of the public debate that took place recently on the setting up of a tribunal on certain disclosures and in the context of the debate taking place in the Dáil today. I wish to be very clear in recognising that there are truths in our society that need a form of inquiry. At each point of the process...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 11 - Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (9 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Regarding commissions of inquiry, we have structures in place to deal with the matter of legal costs. On tribunals of inquiry, this is a matter in respect of which we rely on the leadership of the person leading the tribunal. It must be acknowledged that Mr. Justice Charleton, who is leading the disclosures tribunal, has already been very clear about his view on cost. That was a decision...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 11 - Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (9 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Nor am I.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 11 - Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (9 Mar 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: My anticipation of how this process and the related negotiation will develop is as follows. The Public Service Pay Commission is now in the middle of receiving submissions and meeting stakeholders. I thank its members for all their work. I thank the board and panel that has agreed to do this work for all the effort that has been put in. I asked in the terms of reference that they would...