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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (26 Oct 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 154 and 155 together. As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform I am responsible for setting the overall capital allocations across Departments and for monitoring monthly expenditure at Departmental level. The responsibility for the management and delivery of individual investment projects, within the allocations agreed under the National...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Budgets (26 Oct 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: Budget 2024 continues the very high level of investment in our public health system by providing a total allocation of €22.5 billion. This includes an increase of €808 million in current core expenditure to address demographic, service and pension pressures. It also includes full year costs of previous new developments as well as funding for new developments in 2024. The...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (26 Oct 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The current public service pay agreement, Building Momentum, is due to expire at the end of 2023. As such, Government and public service staff representatives are due to enter into discussions on a successor agreement in the coming period. The overall budgetary arithmetic takes into account that a public service pay agreement may be reached in 2024. However, the details of this are subject to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (26 Oct 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 160 and 164 together. The NDP will deliver total public investment of €165 billion over the period 2021-2030 and as Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform I have responsibility for setting the overall capital allocations across Departments. Management and delivery of individual investment projects within the allocations agreed under...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (26 Oct 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government has committed to €165 billion in capital investment through the National Development Plan (NDP) published in 2021. As a percentage of national income, annual capital investment is now among the largest in the EU. In 2023, almost €13 billion will fund vital infrastructure in areas such as housing, transport, education, enterprise, sport and climate action....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (26 Oct 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: All Irish public bodies are obliged to treat public funds with care, and to ensure that the best possible value for money is obtained whenever public money is being spent or invested. My Department publishes the Public Financial Procedures manual, which is a comprehensive and practical guide to public financial management. Public Financial Procedures provide the framework of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (26 Oct 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 165, 167 and 172 together. The Government's approach to public expenditure policy is set out in the Medium Term Expenditure Strategy (MTES) published in the Summer Economic Statement in 2021. The objectives of the strategy are twofold, to ensure that the level of core expenditure growth is sustainable over the long-term and that investment in expenditure...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (26 Oct 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: In terms of infrastructure this Government has committed to €165 billion in capital investment through the National Development Plan (NDP) published in 2021. As a percentage of national income, annual capital investment is now among the largest in the EU. In 2024, almost €13 billion will fund vital infrastructure in areas such as social housing, transport, education, enterprise,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (26 Oct 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 168 and 171 together. Despite a challenging recruitment market, data shows that staff numbers in the public service have continued to grow over the last number of years. Between the end of 2015 and Q2 of 2023 overall serving numbers in full-time equivalent terms (FTE) increased from about 302,000 to 385,000, a growth of 83,000 FTE or approximately 27%. ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Brexit Issues (26 Oct 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government has made significant allocations across a range of sectors to counter the effects of Brexit since the UK withdrawal referendum in 2016, including through the European Union’s Brexit Adjustment Reserve (BAR). The BAR provides support to counter the adverse economic, social, territorial and, environmental consequences of the withdrawal of the UK from the European...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Oct 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: All public bodies are obliged to spend or invest public funds with care, and to ensure that optimal value for money is obtained in accordance with the Public Spending Code which sets out the rules and procedures to ensure that these standards are upheld across the Irish public service. Public procurement directives apply to all Member States within the European Union. The aim of these...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: That is a new one.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: It is a first.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Consultations (25 Oct 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The information requested by the Deputy in respect of my Department and the bodies under its aegis is set out in the table below. Public body Briefings from the TENI or Belong To organisations from 2021 to date Topic Covered Cost Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform Belong To on 24 June,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (25 Oct 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: In March 2023, I presented to Government a package of significant actions aimed at enhancing project delivery for the NDP. Among these actions, I committed to an independent mid-term evaluation of investment priorities and capacity of the NDP, focusing on the capacity to deliver current Government priorities, to utilise sectoral capital allocations and to estimate the impact of the NDP on key...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue with me, which he has done on a number of occasions before. Much of the delay that has been caused is due to the requirement we have to publicly consult on the impact a scheme like this can have on the environment. I very much appreciate the importance of this issue, and that has just been highlighted to all of us as we see the dreadful flood damage...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: No, he never said that.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flexible Work Practices (24 Oct 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department published the Blended Working Policy Framework for Civil Service Organisations in March 2022, which was shared with Public Service employers with a view of providing a consistent approach across the wider public service. Remote working in the Civil Service is facilitated on a blended basis. The Framework has informed the blended working policies of individual organisations...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (24 Oct 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: In May of this year, following the successful conclusion of a tendering process, my Department established a new contract for the provision of eTenders, the national electronic tendering platform for public procurement contracts. In doing so, the provision of eTenders transitioned to a new service provider and as a consequence to a different eTenders platform than that which had been in use...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (24 Oct 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The Minister for Finance introduced the levy on pension funds, as provided for in section 125B of the Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999 and as inserted by section 4 of the 2011 Finance (No. 2) Act. For the years 2011, 2012 and 2013, the rate was 0.60% of the pension scheme assets. For the year 2014, the rate was 0.75% of the assets and for the year 2015, the final year of the levy, the rate...