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Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes Data (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: I ask the Minister of State to provide an update on the status of CFRAM and on the major projects that are planned. I do not want a long list of everything the Minister of State has done, which I am sure he had planned to give, just an update on CFRAM and the major projects planned for 2018.

Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes Data (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: Give me time.

Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes Data (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: Given the season, I was going to be nice to the Minister of State and acknowledge that he has woken up many people in the OPW. I hope that continues. I acknowledge the progress on CFRAM. If the Minister for Rural and Community Development, Deputy Ring, has been living in the Minister of State's office, I have been living in his ear in respect of this matter. However, it is important that...

Other Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister of State. It is in this morning's Irish Mirrorand I recommend that the Minister of State look at it. It sends a very bad signal as people are still struggling. We have discussed the shortage of money for section 39 organisations but in some sections of the State there is a level of extravagance. I acknowledge the work being done by the Minister of State and his office...

Other Questions: Voluntary Sector Remuneration (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: I want to express my frustration because I sought to table this issue as my first priority and the Minister's office transferred it to the Department of Health. I thank Deputy Burton for tabling it. The HSE wrote in the immediate aftermath of the FEMPI legislation, in 2010, to all of these section 39 organisations and withdrew the equivalent amount of the FEMPI reductions in public...

Other Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: 11. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether the guidelines for public procurement are being applied consistently throughout the public service; the specific measures that have been implemented to ensure that there is adherence to the rules on public procurement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53462/17]

Other Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: The Minister and I have had several discussions on procurement and particularly on making it a friendlier process for small business. Is he happy that the guidelines for public procurement are consistent across the public service? Is he happy that those rules are being applied? Will he comment on an issue that arose overnight, the spending of €135,000 by the Central Bank on a...

Other Questions: Public Service Retirement Age (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: No one will have to work.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme Review (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: While I know it is not the responsibility of the Minister's Department, the national planning framework is a document that is causing serious concern. It has laid out choices with regard to the cities that are being selected but is leaving everything else to the regional assemblies in terms of spatial planning and, one would imagine, in terms of capital investment. Were we to publish the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme Review (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: The International Monetary Fund, IMF, published a review of our infrastructure earlier this year and was generally positive about a lot of our infrastructural projects. However, it did state that the differing sectoral approaches to infrastructural development was an issue. It also noted that the state of our infrastructure was a barrier to progress. I presume the plan will deal with that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Information and Communications Technology (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: 1. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the roll-out of the public service information and communications technology strategy; the amount that has been spent on it to date; the estimated amount to be spent; the security implications and data protection steps that have been taken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53464/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Information and Communications Technology (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: I would like to ask the Minister about the status of the public service information and communications technology strategy, particularly the work being done to ensure citizens' personal data are secure, especially at a time when data privacy is under such a threat.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Information and Communications Technology (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: The Minister of State says the Department of Justice and Equality is the lead Department. Is the sum of €19.1 million attached to the Department of Justice and Equality or the Minister of State's Department? Has there been any major cyber attack during the past 12 months on information held by the State? Will the Minister of State give an update on the Data Protection Commissioner's...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Information and Communications Technology (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: I support the concept of the public services card. Will the Minister of State update me on the Data Protection Commissioner's investigation? In the past 12 months has there any major cyber attack, of which he is aware, on any Government body?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme Review (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: 3. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress of the capital review; if the ten-year plan will outline funding beyond the 2021 timeframe; the way in which it will co-ordinate with the national development plan; if it will it incorporate a review of the role of PPPs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53590/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme Review (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: The capital review plan has been announced many times. Will the Minister provide an update on it? I am conscious that he intends to link the capital review with the national planning framework, a document which is extremely flawed. It is only in the consultation phase. Will the roll-out of the national planning framework delay the national capital plan?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: 35. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the €788 million below profile announced in the fiscal monitor will be returned to the central fund or if the funds will be kept in each Department in the event that spending projections across Departments are not met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53463/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Data (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: 161. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of staff in the Office of the Government Chief Information Office in each of the years from 2013 to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54141/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Communications (13 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: 98. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of running the creative youth pull out section in a newspaper (details supplied); the Department that authorised it; if his Department authorised it; if his Department was consulted before authorisation was provided; if this was an initiative by the strategic communications unit, SCU; the role of the SCU in this; and if he...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revaluation of Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Revenue Commissioners (12 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: I welcome the delegation and thank them for their ongoing work. What level of engagement has the Revenue Commissioners had with the Department of Finance on LPT since 2015? Was engagement parked subsequent to the Government decision not to proceed with the revaluation? Mr. Walsh said that very few 2015 valuations would be affected by increases. We are in 2017 now and we have new figures...