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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Retirements (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: An Inter-Departmental Working Group on Fuller Working Lives was established earlier this year under the chairmanship of my Department which considered policy around retirement age in both the public and private sectors, examining implications arising from retirement ages now and in the future.  That Group reported recently and in accordance with one of its recommendations, my Department...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (11 Oct 2016)

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 best value for money.  It would be a breach of the EU rules for a public body to favour or discriminate against particular candidates on grounds such as nationality, organisational size, etc. and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware the Public Appointments Service (PAS) is the centralised recruiter for the Civil and Public Service. It is an independent, statutory body which provides professional recruitment and selection services. Through its selection competitions PAS establishes panels of suitably qualified individuals from which vacancies may be filled. The number of positions available...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Data (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to the Deputy's question, the Payroll Shared Service Centre processes payroll payments for over 98,000 payees, including retired civil servants.  The primary source for the provision of payslip information is through the Payroll Shared Service Centre online payslip facility.  Payees can access current and historical payslip data through this online facility, which can be...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The issue raised in this question relates to a provision of the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012 which extended the application of pension abatement to cases in which the public service pensioner secures an appointment in sectors other than the sector in which the pensioner had been previously employed. Abatement of pension in the public service is...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Labour Court Recommendations (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The issue of pension entitlements for Community Employment Scheme Supervisors and Assistant Supervisors was the subject of a Labour Court recommendation in 2008. The position is that although the employing bodies concerned are mainly funded by public expenditure programmes, the State does not have any role as an employer in this sector and the employees of such bodies are not...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Health and Safety Regulations (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to the Deputy's question, there are no commercial or non-commercial state agencies under the remit of my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Agencies Staff Data (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to the Deputy's question, there are no commercial or non-commercial state agencies under the remit of my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Review (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I am aware of the activities of the Community Sector High Level Forum (or Working Group) (previously the Informal Forum) which was convened to examine certain issues pertaining to the Community Employment sector.  The forum met on 27 November 2015 and on 11 April 2016.  Future meetings will be planned once a new Chair has been appointed.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Private Partnerships (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to PPP stakeholders' calls for greater clarity on the way in which Eurostat classifies public private partnerships, in the wake of the publication in March of the Revised Manual on General Government and Debt (MGDD), the European PPP Expertise Centre (EPEC) and Eurostat have worked together over recent months to produce a practitioners' guide with a view to bringing...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (11 Oct 2016)

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 best value for money.  It would be a breach of the EU rules for a public body to favour or discriminate against particular candidates on grounds such as nationality, organisational size, etc. and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Functions (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to the Deputy's question the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has no responsibility in this matter. I understand that the information can be obtained by the Deputy directly from the Houses of the Oireachtas.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Institutes of Technology Funding (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy will appreciate that a very important consideration in considering the scope for independent borrowing by institutions in the higher education sector is whether that borrowing is  classified as falling within the General Government sector or not. At national level the CSO are responsible under EU regulation for ensuring that all units within the economy are...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Remuneration (11 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The severance value referred to by the Deputy relates to a case quoted in the report on severance payments in the public service published by the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) and recently reviewed by the PAC.  The value cited is the capital value assigned to an entitlement to retire early and an award of added pension years calculated by the C&AG's actuarial...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Levy (6 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The public service Pension-Related Deduction (PRD) is a key part of the set of reductions to public service pay and pensions provided for under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (FEMPI) Acts. I as Minister am required to review and report on the FEMPI legislation annually, and my most recent review was laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas on 29...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (6 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Funding for bodies from the Vote of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is voted by the Dáil through the annual estimates process. In accordance with the provisions of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform Circular 13/2014 - Management of and Accountability for Grants from Exchequer Funds, any amounts unexpended at year end are to be surrendered to the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures (5 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I am aware that the legal framework in some countries, notably the United States, provides monetary rewards in certain circumstances for whistle-blowers. In so far as this is intended to compensate for the likely financial losses that whistle-blowers face because of their disclosures, our legislation has a different emphasis. In the Protected Disclosures Act 2014, we have provided a range...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Retirements (5 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: In my response to question 27235/16 answered on 27 September, 2016, I provided the Deputy with the number of lump sums paid centrally to civil servants on retirement in 2013, 2014 and 2015, broken down by the bands requested by the Deputy, and the corresponding total value of lump sums paid centrally in each of those years. The details of lump sums which were not paid centrally are...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pensions Data (5 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Because of the manner in which data was recorded, I am not in a position to provide the information sought with respect to 2015 retirements. However, as a consequence of the transition of pension payrolls to the Payroll Shared Services Centre at the end of 2015, data with respect to 2016 retirements can be more readily interrogated. Accordingly, I can tell the Deputy that the average lump...

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Staff Remuneration (4 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I am not welching on any agreement. A process was put in place between the Department of Health and my Department and that process is being carried out. On the different points the Deputy puts to me and the effect of recruitment, my colleague, the Minister for Health, is best placed to comment on the effect of that campaign. I note, to emphasise the figures, that the number of nurses...