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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Functions (9 Sep 2021)

Michael McGrath: Awaiting reply from the Department.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Brexit Supports (9 Sep 2021)

Michael McGrath: Ireland is expected to receive a total allocation of €1.065 billion in 2018 prices (equivalent to €1.165 billion in current prices) from the Brexit Adjustment Reserve (BAR), comprised of €991 million in pre-financing, and a further €74 million in 2025.  Expenditure under the Reserve must demonstrate a direct link to the negative impact of the withdrawal of the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (9 Sep 2021)

Michael McGrath: No request for expenditure approval was received by this Department in relation to either the role of UN special envoy or the person identified. In general, staffing matters are managed by Departments within overall expenditure ceilings. In the normal course of events, my Department is available to assist other Departments with the range of technical queries that can often arise with many...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Government Communications (9 Sep 2021)

Michael McGrath: I propose to take Questions Nos. 256 and 257 together. I can confirm that there is no evidence to indicate that my ministerial mobile phone has been compromised or of any attempts to hack this phone.  I occasionally use my personal phone in the course of my official duties and the above position also applies to this phone during my term of office.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (9 Sep 2021)

Michael McGrath: The information requested by the Deputy in relation to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests received and responded to by my Department in the specified period is set out in the table below.   Year Number of Freedom of Information requests 2021 (to date) 178 2020 295 2019 306 ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Appointments (9 Sep 2021)

Michael McGrath: I wish to advise the Deputy that the person in question has not held a formal or informal role in the name of my Department, or the Office of Government Procurement which is also part of my Department, since the commencement of the 33rd Dáil.  This is also the case in respect of the bodies under the aegis of my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Government Communications (9 Sep 2021)

Michael McGrath: I wish to advise the Deputy neither I nor my advisors use either of the named applications.  This is also the position with respect to members of the Department’s Management Board.   A number of other Department officials do use one of the applications, Slack. The purpose of this application is to facilitate quick updates between external partners and internal teams...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Summer Economic Statement (9 Sep 2021)

Michael McGrath: I propose to take Questions Nos. 262 and 263 together. The Summer Economic Statement (SES) laid out up to €8.1 billion in 2022 for non-core, temporary spending under the overall expenditure ceiling. This €8.1 billion under ‘temporary spending’ heading in Table 4 of the SES is made up of the non-core expenditure areas listed Table 8, intended to address the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Tests (27 Jul 2021)

Michael McGrath: Currently, my Department through the OGCIO are producing Digital COVID certificates for Vaccination and Recovery, through a process of data transfer established with the HSE/Department of Health; and for PCR and Antigen testing, through a process of data transfer established with those laboratories that are able to comply with the Statement of Operating Procedures produced by the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (27 Jul 2021)

Michael McGrath: The establishment of the Civil Service Mobility scheme fulfils one of the requirements of both Action 15 of the Civil Service Renewal Plan which aims to ‘Expand career and mobility opportunities for staff across geographic, organisational and sectoral boundaries’, and Action 14 of the People Strategy for the Civil Service which calls for the further expansion of a coherent...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Michael McGrath: Workers across the economy, including of course our public servants, have made an extraordinary contribution during the COVID pandemic and I would like to pay tribute to them. Notwithstanding the sacrifices and efforts of the last year or more and the progress we have made in recent months to roll out vaccines, this pandemic remains an ongoing challenge for us all and it continues, for now,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Summer Economic Statement (27 Jul 2021)

Michael McGrath: As set out in the Summer Economic Statement, the medium term fiscal strategy provides for an average 5% annual growth-rate increase in Voted expenditure out to 2025, equating to increases in spending of between €4.0 billion to €4.4 billion from 2022 to 2025. As set out in Box 2.1 of the Mid-Year Expenditure Report, published last week, a key part of the Estimates process...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Summer Economic Statement (27 Jul 2021)

Michael McGrath: Table 5 of the Summer Economic Statement sets out the overall Government spending projections from 2020 to 2025. These include both core capital spending as well as one-off temporary spending related to much needed supports to manage challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the impacts of Brexit. Other one-off temporary measures also include EU funding supports such as the National...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (27 Jul 2021)

Michael McGrath: The review of the National Development Plan is currently ongoing. As part of the Programme for Government the review was brought forward to 2021 in order to assess the resourcing requirements for the most important challenges facing us as a nation including climate action, infrastructural challenges, housing, balanced regional development (as set out in the National Planning Framework and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Michael McGrath: Workers across the economy, including of course our public servants, have made an extraordinary contribution during the COVID pandemic and I would like to pay tribute to them. Notwithstanding the sacrifices and efforts of the last year or more and the progress we have made in recent months to roll out vaccines, this pandemic remains an ongoing challenge for us all and it continues, for now,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Industrial Relations (27 Jul 2021)

Michael McGrath: As the Deputy will be aware, the staff in question are not public servants and are instead employed in the Houses of the Oireachtas by individual Senators. I understand that the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission is engaged in an ongoing process including at the Workplace Relations Commission in relation to the terms and conditions of Seanad Secretarial Assistants. As the Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2022 (27 Jul 2021)

Michael McGrath: Built on the performance budgeting framework that has been progressively embedded into the budget cycle, Equality Budgeting in Ireland has been developed over recent years with a view to enhancing the role of resource allocation policies in advancing equality, reducing poverty and strengthening economic and social rights. Equality objectives and indicators are published every year in the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2022 (27 Jul 2021)

Michael McGrath: Following the Government's decision in February 2021 to commence work on developing a well-being framework for Ireland, the Department of the Taoiseach, co-sponsored by the Department of Finance as well as my Department, established an Interdepartmental Working Group on the Development of a Well-being Framework for Ireland. This Working Group provided a forum for representatives from across...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Michael McGrath: There has been a huge amount of work across Government Departments and the HSE to ensure the introduction of Certificates for Ireland's full participation in the EU DCC scheme by 19th July 2021. This included the issuing of certificates to those who are fully vaccinated and negative test results provided by authorised COVID test providers and laboratories. The certificates issue by email...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Bodies (27 Jul 2021)

Michael McGrath: I wish to advise the Deputy that the relevant bodies under the aegis of my Department in receipt of funding from the State declare the salaries of their respective employees, as set out in the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies 2016.