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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: They are not on a knife edge. How can the Deputy say that? In the next 18 to 24 months, the Government aims to balance the books. That is not a definition of a knife edge. Some of the matters to which the Deputy referred come within the remit of the Minister for Finance and he will provide answers on them. As I stated, we will achieve balance in these areas by making steady and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: We will be on a knife edge very quickly if we start using unexpected increases in receipts to reduce the taxes that pay for day to day spending. The Deputy referred to the increase in corporation tax receipts. The Minister for Finance has stated we will not use large increases in revenue in specific tax brackets to reduce tax levels for everybody or to fund large increases in public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I have a particularly heightened appreciation of the current position because I am trying to deal with colleagues as a budget approaches.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: If the Deputy is referring to the abolition of rates in 1977-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: -----that is not a prospect for the budget in one and a half weeks' time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: It was an appreciation of that which fuelled my answers to Deputy Paul Murphy's questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Will the Chairman provide a specific example without giving any names?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Are other people appointed to do the same work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: As it is a specific matter for the Companies Registration Office, I cannot comment on it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Our colleagues in Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland, in particular, are doing that. My colleagues in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine are also doing it. We are trying to provide as much certainty as we can. I repeat the point I made that a crucial element is knowing when exactly the United Kingdom wants to trigger Article 50 and will make its views very clear on the kind...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Chairman.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Funding Data (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Under the National Lottery Act 2013, any price increase in National Lottery tickets is a matter for decision by the operator of the National Lottery, while any change to the scheme of a National Lottery game must be approved by the National Lottery Regulator, who acts independently in the discharge of his functions. Under the legislation, the operator decides on the prizes to be...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I can confirm that the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, on foot of terms set out in Circular 18/2010, had been applying the 10 % reduction in pay rates and fixed term allowances to persons recruited at entry grades to the department from 1 January 2011 onwards. I can confirm that this was not applied to staff recruited at entry grades after 1 January 2011 with previous reckonable...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Nursing Staff Remuneration (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Incremental credit for the 36 week clinical placement undertaken by 4th Year Student Nurses was abolished by the then Government in December 2010 as part of a range of measures aimed at reducing the public service pay bill. In the context of the Lansdowne Road Agreement it was agreed between management and unions that the issue of the 36 week incremental credit would be examined in relation...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas Members' Remuneration (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I would refer the Deputy to my Department's website at where the information sought has been published.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Appointments to State Boards (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 177 to 179, inclusive, together. The appointment of the Chief Executive is a matter for the Board of Horse Racing Ireland under the relevant legislation. The Board of Horse Racing Ireland formally reappointed the Chief Executive Officer on the 21st of July on terms and conditions approved by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Appointments to State Boards (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I refer the Deputy to my answer to PQ Ref 25170/16 on the 15.09.2016. Generally, the Chief Executive Officer of commercial state bodies is appointed by the Board and holds office on terms and conditions determined by the Board with the consent of the relevant Minister and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. The Guidelines on Contracts, Remuneration and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Cross-Border Projects (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The projects referred to by the Deputy all relate to the INTERREG Programme, which has a total value of €283 million over the period 2014-2020 and which is 85% funded by the European Union. While all of the projects have been the subject of an assessment process led by the Special EU Programmes Body, uncertainty surrounds the availability of EU funding as a consequence of the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (29 Sep 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The Interpretation Services framework was established in February 2016. There are 3 framework suppliers.  The Translation Services framework was established in March 2016. There are 6 framework suppliers.  Both frameworks are for the provision of services in respect of some 90 languages and are both are still in place. Draw down from both the Interpretation Services framework...