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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: On the latter part of the Deputy's question, any paperwork available to me on the spending review and this decision will be shared with the Deputy. However, if I was in a position where we had already identified the outcome of a spending review, then the Deputy would be asking me why I was going ahead with it.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: This is not about recognising those outside the Lansdowne Road agreement but those inside it. The only protagonists I have had in the outcome reached earlier today are those representing those inside the Lansdowne Road agreement. I do not believe one could justify this as rewarding militancy - the Deputy's phrase, not mine - when this agreement only benefits those inside the Lansdowne Road...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I completely disagree with the Deputy on that point. We went through a period where 500 secondary schools were closed. The Deputy welcomed the action that led to their closure. The reason the schools were closed was because the Government did not want to make agreements on public pay outside the Lansdowne Road agreement. The Deputy wants immediate restoration of public pay with the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: We will.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I have a substantial number of background papers on these issues. Have my officials and I agreed how we are going to find-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: We have many options.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Any documents we have on decisions we have made can be made available. However, this must be within some parameters. Any Government needs to have the space in which papers can be presented to it to help in the decision-making process without risk of them being interpreted in such a way that creates unnecessary worry or challenges. The freedom of information legislation recognises the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Are there-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Let me finish off my point-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: What the Deputy asked was whether we have options on how to generate the capital. As of this point, these options have not been identified beyond what I have said to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Labour Employer Economic Forum (17 Jan 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The inaugural meeting of the Labour Employer Economic Forum (LEEF) on the 5th of October last was chaired by An Taoiseach and attended by the sponsoring Ministers of Public Expenditure and Reform, Finance and Jobs Enterprise and Innovation with representatives of employers and trade unions. The aim of the LEEF is to provide a forum to discuss areas of shared concern affecting...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Remuneration (17 Jan 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The following table sets out the information requested by the Deputy in relation to current salaries and allowances. Officeholder Position TD's Salary Officeholder Allowance Total Taoiseach €87,258 €98,092 €185,350 Tánaiste €87,258 €84,051 €171,309 Minister €87,258 €70,282 €157,540 Minister of State €87,258...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Shared Services (17 Jan 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Purpose and design of the Payroll Shared Services Centre The Public Service Reform Plan (November 2011) identified the implementation of shared services as a major element in the Reform Programme. Shared services consolidate administrative functions in areas such as Finance, IT, Payroll and Human Resources which allow organisations and Governments focus their resources on core activities...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Parliamentary Party Allowances (17 Jan 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Parliamentary Activities Allowance (formerly known as the Party Leader's Allowance) is provided for in the Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Act 1938 as amended, most recently by the Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Act, 2014. The Allowance is paid to the parliamentary leader of a qualifying Party - not to the individual members of a Party - in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (17 Jan 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware, the Government's Capital Plan was announced on 29 September, 2015 and outlined exchequer capital spending of €27 billion over the next six years. In the 2016 Summer Economic Statement, the Government committed to additional capital investment of €5.14 billion over the period of the plan. Individual Ministers will be able to advise on the range...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Data (17 Jan 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The information requested by the Deputy is laid out in the table below. It is not possible to supply information for the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform from 2007 to 2010 as my Department was established in 2011. Similarly the figures for Office of Government Procurement and National Shared Services Office are supplied from the year they commenced operations.  The report...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Remuneration (17 Jan 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I can confirm that two weeks' pay in lieu of notice was paid to the special advisors, personal assistants or personal secretaries and other unestablished civil servants, whose contracts of employment ceased on 6 May 2016 on the election of a new government. This is in keeping with relevant guidelines.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (17 Jan 2017)

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 in favour of a particular candidate on grounds such as location or existing relationship with the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jan 2017)

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: Public Sector Pay (17 Jan 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Exchequer pay bill for 2017, as detailed in the recently published Revised Estimates Volume 2017, is €16.4 billion, compared with €15.6 billion for 2016.  This increase will be driven primarily by recruitment of additional staff across the public service during the year - mostly in health, education and policing.  There is  also provision...