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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: On the Deputy's question as to whether comparative analysis had been done, the answer is "Yes". I am happy to furnish the documentation to the committee. With regard to the delivery of general infrastructure projects, the IMF did an analysis of our ability to deliver such projects and where we are with the delivery of infrastructure in Ireland generally. The study was called the PIMA study...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the committee for the opportunity to be here this afternoon. I am presenting six Supplementary Estimates, so I am required to say a word on each of them. In summary, they are: a technical Supplementary Estimate of a token €1,000 for Vote 11, the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform; a technical Supplementary Estimate of a net...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I do not have available to me the overall energy costs of the State Laboratory. If the Deputy bears with me, I will look at the material I have. I am sure we will be able to get that information for the Deputy and share it with her. What I do know is that we are all aware of what has happened in the price of electricity and gas. The way the State Laboratory estimated its electricity needs...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: It is not because this is the only Supplementary Estimate I am bringing forward for energy. In my experience of the Estimates process, Government Departments, through engagement with the agencies they are responsible for, receive from the agencies what their overall budget need is, and within all of that, the agencies themselves form a view as to what their energy costs will be across the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: What happens is that Departments will look at how successful they have been in the number of applications they receive for different posts, and that tends to be the main metric against which advertising campaigns are evaluated. If we look at where we are now in this regard, at the end of quarter 3, 90% of the campaigns that were run by the Public Appointments Service were delivered within...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: Deputy English made a fair point about the analysis of the delivery of large capital projects within the private sector. Most of the work we do only examines the work of public projects. I am certain that the private sector is facing the same challenges we are in terms of inflation and the availability of talent to do the work. The private sector tells us this at every opportunity it can....

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: No.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (22 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: Table 1 of the 2024 Summary Public Capital Programme set out below details the multi-annual public capital investment for 2024 and 2025 by Ministerial Group. The responsibility for the management and delivery of individual investment projects, within the capital allocations agreed under the National Development Plan, rests with the individual sponsoring Department in each case. ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Policies (22 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The Capital Works Management Framework (CWMF) represents the tools that a public body must use to procure and manage the external resources necessary to deliver a public works project that is to be delivered under the Exchequer-funded element of the National Development Plan. It consists of a suite of best practice guidance, standard contracts, generic template documents and procedures that...

Supplementary Estimates for Public Services 2023: Leave to Introduce (21 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I move: That leave be given by the Dáil to introduce the following Supplementary Estimates for the service of the year ending on the 31st day of December, 2023: Vote 2 — Department of the Taoiseach (Supplementary Estimate). Vote 9 — Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary Estimate). Vote 11 — Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and...

Estimates for Public Services 2023 (21 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I move the following Supplementary Estimate: Vote 29 — Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary Estimate).That a supplementary sum not exceeding €938,606,000 be granted to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of December, 2023, for the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Environment,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Cybersecurity Policy (21 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 193, 194, 195 and 196 together. For operational and security reasons, my Department does not disclose specific information relating to cyber security tools, spend, in house expertise and specific strategies employed to counter and combat the threats posed to information security. I am in a position to advise the Deputy that the Department engaged an external...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (21 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: As set out in my reply of 14 November 2023, an independent evaluation of investment priorities and capacity of the National Development Plan (NDP) is currently being conducted by the ESRI. The evaluation is focusing on the capacity to deliver current Government priorities, to utilise sectoral capital allocations and to estimate the impact of the NDP on key economic indicators. Given...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (21 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to advise the Deputy that a deferred reply will be issued to him in respect of this Parliamentary Question, in line with Standing Order 51(1)(b).

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (21 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to advise the Deputy that a deferred reply will be issued to him in respect of this Parliamentary Question, in line with Standing Order 51(1)(b).

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2024 (21 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: One of the main parts of the annual budgetary process is determining the amount of funding required for Departments to carry out their existing functions, before any new decisions are taken. This is referred to as the ‘Existing Level of Service’ or ELS. ELS funding provides provision for the maintenance of our existing services and schemes. The Medium Term Expenditure Strategy,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (16 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy is aware, it was necessary to pause transfers of pensionable service to/from CIÉ under the Public Sector Transfer Network (PSTN), pending clarification of CIÉ's position with regard to funding those transfers. Following consideration of this matter, and clarifications received from CIÉ through the Department of Transport, such transfers of service are no longer...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (16 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The request for supplementary information has been made under Section 7B(4) of the European Union (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Arterial Drainage) Regulations 2019. Section 7B(4) does not stipulate the imposition of deadlines for the compliance of such a request. Where a request is made under Section 7B(4), the Commissioners of Public Works are obliged to comply with such a request. ...

Supplementary Estimates for Public Services 2023: Leave to Introduce (15 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I move: That leave be given by the Dáil to introduce the following Supplementary Estimates for the service of the year ending on the 31st day of December, 2023: Vote 5 — Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Supplementary Estimate). Vote 7 — Office of the Minister for Finance (Supplementary Estimate). Vote 29 — Environment, Climate and Communications...