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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: As of 17th April 2025, there are 362 people on the panel for executive officer grade from the 2024 campaign. This number excludes assignments made to date.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: I wish to advise the Deputy that a deferred reply will be issued to her in respect of this Parliamentary Question, in line with Standing Order 51(1)(b).

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Policies (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: I wish to advise the Deputy that a deferred reply will be issued to her in respect of this Parliamentary Question, in line with Standing Order 51(1)(b).

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Information and Communications Technology (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO), a division in my Department, provides ICT services to the wider Department. I can confirm that all of the IT systems they provide have been made capable of utilising the síneadh fada as required.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Directives (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: My Department currently does not have any EU directives which are awaiting transposition.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: I am informed by Public Appointments Service (PAS) of the following Garda Síochána recruitment campaigns in the period in question. 2024 – Advertised 15/1/2024 Closed 8/2/2024 (all applications were received in this period)2025 – Advertised 6/2/2025 Closed 27/2/2025 (all applications were received in this month). There is a spreadsheet attached which details the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Communications (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: EU member states report on capital projects primarily through a combination of national reporting practices and mechanisms to comply with EU regulations and guidelines. Each EU member State has its own system for managing and reporting on their public investments, including capital projects. In regard to Ireland, substantial information on capital infrastructure projects is made available...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: Securing value for money is an ongoing priority for this Government and is at the heart of all decision making, at every stage of a policy, project or programme's lifecycle. 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. It is not solely...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (29 Apr 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, including in the recent Budget, and for monitoring monthly expenditure at Departmental level. The responsibility for the management and delivery of individual investment projects or sectoral policy strategies, within...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Spending Code (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: My Department is responsible for the Infrastructure Guidelines, which replaced the Public Spending Code (PSC) as of end 2023 in setting the value for money requirements and guidance for evaluating, planning and managing Exchequer-funded capital projects. Management and delivery of investment projects and public services within allocation and the national frameworks is a key responsibility of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: The tender for “ITC016F Multi Supplier Framework Agreement for the provision of Network & Firewall Products, Solutions, Ancillary Equipment and Associated Services” was advertised on the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) in October 2024 and was open to all resellers and manufacturers of Network and Firewall equipment that could meet the criteria set out in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Appointments (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: I am informed that publicjobs, who provide the mechanism for assessment of applicants for State Boards, and a body under the aegis of my department, agree the criteria for the appointment of State Board members with the relevant Minister before a campaign is run, and are influenced by the legislation governing the establishment of the State body. While no specific instruction has been...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Inquiries (10 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Single Public Service Pension Scheme is a statutory Public Service Career-Average Defined Benefit Pension Scheme, established on 1 January 2013 under the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012. It applies to all new entrant public servants. The claim referenced relates to a group of individuals who are not public servants and therefore have no access to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Artificial Intelligence (10 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: In the course of the year, my own Department will publish practice-orientated Guidelines for the Responsible Use of AI in the Public Service. These Guidelines will seek to compliment and further inform corporate strategies regarding the adoption of innovative technology and ways of working, and to set a high standard for public service transformation and innovation, while prioritising public...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Surveys (10 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: My Department is responsible for Employee Performance Management Policy across the Civil Service. There are three levels of performance management in operation within the Civil Service (i) Performance Management and Development process (PMDS), (ii) Senior Civil Servants Performance Review Process and (iii) the Secretaries General Performance Review Process. The Performance Management and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Policies (10 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: The EU AI Act (2024) came into force this year with a suite of measures designed to ensure acceptable and transparent use of AI in the private sphere and in public administration, for the benefit of the public, the economy and society. My colleague, Minister of State for Trade Promotion, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation Niamh Smyth and the Department of Enterprise, Trade...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Artificial Intelligence (10 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Department is currently developing the Public Service Data Strategy 2030. The ambition of this strategy is to ensure that high quality public administrative data is routinely used for policy and service planning, and delivery of Better Public Services outcomes. A key enabler of this will be a fit-for-purpose public service data ecosystem and infrastructure which allows for timely access...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Artificial Intelligence (10 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: In terms of my Department specifically, Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are looked at in the context of our wider data governance approach where data is viewed and treated as a strategic asset. Ireland’s Data Governance Board (www.gov.ie/en/policy-information/72309-data-governance-boar d/#annual-reports) was established in 2021 (under the Data Sharing and Governance Act...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Artificial Intelligence (10 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: CeADAR is Ireland’s national centre for AI and is an Enterprise Ireland and IDA funded technology centre established to support businesses and organisations in Ireland understand, adopt and leverage the benefits and value of AI and machine learning in a constantly advancing and evolving environment. As the European Digital Innovation Hub for AI, CeADAR help Irish organisations...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Artificial Intelligence (10 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: As the Deputy may be aware, CeADAR is Ireland’s national centre for AI and is an Enterprise Ireland and IDA funded technology centre established to support businesses and organisations in Ireland understand, adopt and leverage the benefits and value of AI and machine learning in a constantly advancing and evolving environment. As the European Digital Innovation Hub for AI, CeADAR help...