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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...

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...

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...

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

Paschal Donohoe: Dear Deputy Michael Healy-Rae, I refer to your recent Parliamentary Question pertaining to the Single Supplier Framework agreement for the supply of cleaning, paper, personal hygiene and period equality products FLCO30F. I note your correspondence makes reference to a business based in Cork who had supplied products under a now expired cleaning supplies framework. The Single...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (24 Oct 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The information requested by the Deputy in respect of the bodies under the aegis of my Department is set out in the table below. Body Contact e-mail for Oireachtas members Office of Public Works ministersoffice@opw.ie Public Appointments Service oireachtasqueries@publicjobs.ie National Shared Services...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Government Reform (24 Oct 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The Local Government Reform Act 2014 provided for the replacement of regional authorities by regional assemblies with the general purpose of coordinating, promoting or supporting strategic planning and sustainable development, and promoting effectiveness in local government and public services. The composition of regions and other detailed provisions relating to regional assemblies are to be...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (24 Oct 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: An additional €2¼ billion, from windfall corporation tax receipts, will be made available over the period 2024-2026 to boost delivery of critical capital infrastructure projects and make a contribution to the existing Climate Action Fund (CAF). As mentioned in the Expenditure Report, my Department will be reviewing the sectoral capital allocations to be provided as part of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Services Provision (24 Oct 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to thank the Deputy for this question. As he may be aware, earlier this year I launched Ireland’s digital inclusion roadmap, Digital for Good, which aims to make Ireland one of the most digitally inclusive States in the EU. The roadmap restates the principle set out in Connecting Government 2030 which identifies “digital by default” as a core design principle for...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Reviews (19 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...