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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (15 Nov 2022)

Michael McGrath: The process of unwinding the Financial Emergency (FEMPI) legislation commenced under the Lansdowne Road Agreement 2016-2018, with the remainder of the process continuing under the Public Service Stability Agreement 2018-2020 (PSSA) and ‘Building Momentum: A New Public Service Agreement, 2021-2022’. Each year, under the terms of the FEMPI Act 2013, I am obliged to carry out an...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (15 Nov 2022)

Michael McGrath: Budgetary and expenditure reforms remain a key feature of public expenditure management throughout all Departments. This important goal has been fully embedded across the system of Government and is progressed in a number of ways including the day-to-day management of resources, regular engagement across Departments on cross cutting issues and through the public service reform programme. It...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (10 Nov 2022)

Michael McGrath: Under paragraph 11 of the rules of the Coillte Teoranta Main Superannuation Scheme, Coillte may grant discretionary pension increases which are subject to the approval of the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, with the concurrence of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. In line with the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies 2016 and Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Housing Provision (10 Nov 2022)

Michael McGrath: The issues raised by the Deputy are in the first instance the responsibilities of my Cabinet colleagues, Ministers O'Gorman and O'Brien.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ethics in Public Office (9 Nov 2022)

Michael McGrath: I am happy to inform the Deputy that my Department’s review of our statutory framework for ethics is at the point of being completed. The Department has prepared a full draft of the Review Report and will now engage with major stakeholders within the public service to finalise the text. I will then consider the final report and bring it to Government for its approval and publication....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (9 Nov 2022)

Michael McGrath: The matter raised by the Deputy relates to a staff member in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. On the basis that the National Shared Service Office (NSSO) can only act on the instruction of HR Units in relevant departments, this question should be directed to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (9 Nov 2022)

Michael McGrath: I wish to advise the Deputy that there are no members of staff seconded from my Department to State agencies or other public bodies in receipt of a higher duty/acting allowance.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (9 Nov 2022)

Michael McGrath: As the Deputy will be aware, I have primary responsibility for the civil service pension schemes, while I hold an overall policy role in relation to public service pension schemes. No civil or public service occupational pension schemes will have a double pension payment, as they have separate terms to the State Pension (Contributory). In respect of the civil service pre-existing (pre-2013)...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)

Michael McGrath: I expect there will be an outcome in the coming weeks. I am aware of the application by Mayo College of Further Education and Training to the FET College of the Future major projects fund. There are two parts to the assessment process for such applications. The first part has now been completed by the SOLAS-led evaluation team and its report has been submitted to the Department of the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)

Michael McGrath: I will do my best to go through the questions quickly. Deputy Mairéad Farrell raised an issue relating to the hot school meals programme. I will ask the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Humphreys, to revert to her because it falls under that Department as well as the Department of Education in terms of the rates that are paid to contractors to make sure that vital service can...

Data Protection Act 2018 (Section 60(6)) Regulations 2022: Motion (8 Nov 2022)

Michael McGrath: I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft: Data Protection Act 2018 (Section 60(6)) (Competition and Consumer Protection Commission) Regulations 2022; Data Protection Act 2018 (Section 60(6)) (Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority) Regulations 2022; and Data Protection Act 2018 (Section 60(6)) (Corporate Enforcement Authority)...

Report of Committee of Selection: Motion (8 Nov 2022)

Michael McGrath: I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the Nineteenth Report of the Standing Committee of Selection in accordance with Standing Order 34, copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 27th October, 2022, and discharges members from Committees and appoints a member to a Committee accordingly.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (8 Nov 2022)

Michael McGrath: I move: That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 30th July, 2020, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for oral answer, following those next set down to the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, shall be set down to Ministers in the following temporary sequence: Minister for...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)

Michael McGrath: Engagement has taken place between the Tánaiste and the Ministers of State with EI and the IDA in relation to this issue. The provisions of the Protection of Employment Act 1977 are very clear when it comes to collective redundancies, such as the requirement for the 30-day consultation period with the workers and their representatives and also the need to notify the Minister for...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)

Michael McGrath: I thank Deputy O'Sullivan. I would be happy to do that. In my experience, when the frequency of a service is improved, such as the 220 service between Cork city and Carrigaline, the use increases dramatically. When the service is provided, if the need is there a significant uptake occurs. I will be happy to work with Deputy O'Sullivan in regard to the 226 service between Cork city and Kinsale.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)

Michael McGrath: A well-resourced winter plan is meaningful action but we need to continue to increase the permanent capacity of the healthcare system and build up resilience in the system. It is the case that we are faced with an unprecedented number of presentations. In our children's hospitals, according to reports in the news yesterday, there has been, I think, a 50% increase in presentations relative...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)

Michael McGrath: -----but I accept the point that we have to build up permanent capacity further.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)

Michael McGrath: To answer the Deputy's specific question, there is legislation on the way in relation to An Bord Pleanála. It is urgent legislation. Separate from that, we have the outcome of the work being led by the Attorney General and the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, on the planning system generally. That will also come in the form of a new...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)

Michael McGrath: We will give consideration to the point the Deputy has made. Last year at COP26, the Taoiseach announced that Ireland will more than double its funding for developing countries to tackle climate change by 2025. It will increase from €93 million to €225 million over the next four years. We have made a start on that in the context of budget 2023, which we announced in the House...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)

Michael McGrath: Deputies McDonald and Naughten raised climate action issues with regard to COP27 and so on. It makes sense to have a debate when the Taoiseach and the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, report back to the House having attended COP27. We can have an informed debate when we know the outcomes of COP27. We do not yet know what those outcomes are. I...