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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: 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 or sectoral policy strategies, within the allocations agreed under the National Development Plan (NDP),...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: The issues the Deputy is referring to are in the main not overpayments, but a delay in addressing taxes due on retirement and anomalies in deductions of various pension contribution. A review in relation to Ministers who may have been impacted regarding pension contributions and ASC has been completed. Those identified are being contacted and engagement is ongoing. I understand a number of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: Under Section 17 of the Civil Service Regulation Act 1956, the Minister for Public Expenditure; Infrastructure; Public Service Reform and Digitalisation has a number of responsibilities for the Civil Service including: the regulation and control of the Civil Service, the classification, re-classification, numbers and remuneration of civil servants, and the fixing of the terms and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: As Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitisation 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 or sectoral policy strategies, within the allocations agreed under the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 59 and 67 together. I can advise that the OPW submitted supplementary information to the Department on the 17th of April 2025. This information has been referred to the Department's consultants for examination. In parallel, my Department is also making arrangements for a period of public consultation to be held in regard to the environmental impacts of this...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Artificial Intelligence (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation published the Guidelines for the Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Public Service in May 2025. These have been very positively received across the public sector and the online version of the guidelines has been accessed approximately 7,500 times since it was launched. The Guidelines...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: As Minister for Public Expenditure Infrastructure Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, 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 or sectoral policy strategies, within the allocations agreed under the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: Securing value for money is an ongoing priority for this Government. Delivering value for money is about securing the efficient and effective use of public resources in the pursuit of better public services, living standards and infrastructure for the people of Ireland. Ensuring value for money is the responsibility of everyone involved in overseeing the use of public funds and a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Treasury Management Agency (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: The National Development Finance Agency (NDFA) is part of the National Treasury Management Association (NTMA). On 16 April, I announced that the Government has agreed a series of actions to accelerate the delivery of strategic infrastructure. An enhanced role for the NDFA was included in these actions agreed by the Government, with the NDFA expanding its existing level of support for...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ethics in Public Office (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: We are committed in the Programme for Government to “update the Ethics in Public Office legislation”. This follows the wide-ranging review of the legislative framework for ethics in public life mentioned by the Deputy that my Department undertook during the last Government, the Report and findings of which were published in February 2023. The Report's recommendations include...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: I welcome the Deputy’s interest in enhancing transparency in respect of public expenditure and I acknowledge the value of providing clear, accessible information on how funding is allocated to support public service delivery. My Department currently leads on a number of relevant initiatives in this regard: The Department seeks to enhance access to information in this area through the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: As Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitisation 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 or sectoral policy strategies, within the allocations agreed under the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Revised Estimates Volume for 2025 set out a gross Exchequer pay bill of €28.0 billion for 2025, which is just under one third of Gross Current Expenditure. The total public service pay bill, including Local Authorities, is estimated to be approximately €30.1 billion in 2025. Based on this, the estimated gross cost of a 1% increase in the public service pay bill is...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: All procurement by the Department is governed by EU Directives, national Regulations and national policies on procurement typically conveyed through Circulars. These frameworks are designed to ensure that public procurement is conducted in a manner that is transparent, proportionate and ensures equal treatment and value for money. The Department is committed to upholding these principles and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Private Partnerships (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 257, 258, 259, 260, 261 and 262 together. My primary role in relation to PPPs is to facilitate the PPP process centrally by developing the general policy framework (including, where necessary, the legal framework) and the capital investment policy framework within which PPPs operate, and by providing central guidance to Departments and other State...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: My Department has not procured any services from the company referenced. In regard to the bodies under the aegis of my Department only the Office of Public Works has used the named company. A satellite service was chosen to provide Internet and data connectivity services at two remote sites, namely Tintern Abbey in Co. Wexford and Anne’s Grove in Co. Cork. This service was chosen...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Government Procurement (16 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Office of Government Procurement, a Division within my department has established central procurement solutions for Security Services:One arrangement was established in September 2020 and expired in September 2024;One arrangement was established in September 2024 and will run up to September 2028. Frontline Security is not currently nor were they a framework member of either arrangement.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (16 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 62 and 63 together. The Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Act 2024 established the Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund (ICN Fund). The purpose of ICN Fund is to support the economy in times of exceptional need and to support Ireland’s transition to a low carbon economy through the funding of designated environmental...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Tax Yield (16 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: In both 2024 and in 2025, as per Sections 27, 28 & 29 of the Finance Act 2020, the carbon tax increased by €7.50 per tonne. These increases are phased, with auto fuel changes being introduced annually in October, and changes for all other fuels the following May to allow for a lower rate on home heating fuels during the winter heating season. The Programme for Government...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Cancer Services (16 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: As the Deputy may be aware, the budgetary process involves a range of inputs and engagements before culminating in the expenditure allocations for 2026 which will be set out on Budget day this coming Autumn. These include the National Economic Dialogue which took place earlier in the summer as well as the publication of the annual Summer Economic Statement, in which my Department, along...