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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jul 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 and for monitoring monthly expenditure at Departmental level. The responsibility for the management and delivery of individual investment projects or sectoral policy strategies, within the allocations agreed under the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: As Minister for Public Expenditure Infrastructure Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, I am responsible for setting the overall capital allocations across Departments and for monitoring monthly expenditure at Departmental level. The responsibility for the management and delivery of individual investment projects or sectoral policy strategies, within the allocations agreed under the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: I would like to inform the Deputy that the processes for government projects as set out in Circular 14/2021 from my Department, remain robust and fit for purpose.   In recently quoted examples the underlying issue was failure to execute in accordance with the circular, including use of appropriately skilled staff and internal project governance.  I have asked my officials to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform I am responsible for setting the overall capital allocations across Departments and for monitoring monthly expenditure at Departmental level. The responsibility for the management and delivery of individual investment projects or sectoral policy strategies, within the allocations agreed under the National Development Plan (NDP),...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Programme for Government includes a commitment to reviewing the public procurement process to make it more transparent and encourage greater participation from SMEs. Working towards this aim, and to set out the strategic direction of public procurement for the next five years, my Department is developing a first national public procurement strategy. The strategy has been subject to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: As Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, I am responsible for setting the overall capital allocations across Departments and for monitoring monthly expenditure at Departmental level. The responsibility for the management and delivery of individual investment projects, within the allocations agreed under the National Development Plan (NDP),...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (17 Jul 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 and for monitoring monthly expenditure at Departmental level. The responsibility for the management and delivery of individual investment projects or sectoral policy strategies, within the allocations agreed under the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: €106.4 billion in gross voted funding is being provided in 2025 to deliver on Government priorities and commitments, including continuing the delivery of a National Development Plan (NDP) which is providing the vital infrastructure we need to support our future economic and social progress. This funding is also providing appropriate income supports for better outcomes in tackling...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: In line with the commitment in the Programme for Government, my Department has prioritised an early review of the National Development Plan, which will be published in July. The aim of the NDP Review is to improve our infrastructure, particularly, water, energy and transport. Prioritisation of these sectors is necessary to enable the delivery of hundreds of thousands of additional homes and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Programme for Government has prioritised an early review of the National Development Plan (NDP), to be published this July. The aim of the Review is to improve our infrastructure, particularly water, energy, transport and housing. Improvements to this supporting economic infrastructure are necessary to enable the delivery of hundreds of thousands of additional homes and to boost our...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, I am responsible for setting the overall capital allocations across Departments and for monitoring monthly expenditure at Departmental level. The responsibility for the management and delivery of individual investment projects or sectoral policy strategies, within the allocations agreed under the National Development Plan (NDP),...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: The issues the Deputy is referring to are in the main not overpayments, but a delay in addressing taxes due on retirement and anomalies in deductions of various pension contribution. A review in relation to Ministers who may have been impacted regarding pension contributions and ASC has been completed. Those identified are being contacted and engagement is ongoing. I understand a number of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: Under Section 17 of the Civil Service Regulation Act 1956, the Minister for Public Expenditure; Infrastructure; Public Service Reform and Digitalisation has a number of responsibilities for the Civil Service including: the regulation and control of the Civil Service, the classification, re-classification, numbers and remuneration of civil servants, and the fixing of the terms and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jul 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 and for monitoring monthly expenditure at Departmental level. The responsibility for the management and delivery of individual investment projects or sectoral policy strategies, within the allocations agreed under the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 59 and 67 together. I can advise that the OPW submitted supplementary information to the Department on the 17th of April 2025. This information has been referred to the Department's consultants for examination. In parallel, my Department is also making arrangements for a period of public consultation to be held in regard to the environmental impacts of this...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Artificial Intelligence (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation published the Guidelines for the Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Public Service in May 2025. These have been very positively received across the public sector and the online version of the guidelines has been accessed approximately 7,500 times since it was launched. The Guidelines...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: As Minister for Public Expenditure Infrastructure Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, I am responsible for setting the overall capital allocations across Departments and for monitoring monthly expenditure at Departmental level. The responsibility for the management and delivery of individual investment projects or sectoral policy strategies, within the allocations agreed under the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: Securing value for money is an ongoing priority for this Government. 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. Ensuring value for money is the responsibility of everyone involved in overseeing the use of public funds and a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Treasury Management Agency (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: The National Development Finance Agency (NDFA) is part of the National Treasury Management Association (NTMA). On 16 April, I announced that the Government has agreed a series of actions to accelerate the delivery of strategic infrastructure. An enhanced role for the NDFA was included in these actions agreed by the Government, with the NDFA expanding its existing level of support for...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ethics in Public Office (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: We are committed in the Programme for Government to “update the Ethics in Public Office legislation”. This follows the wide-ranging review of the legislative framework for ethics in public life mentioned by the Deputy that my Department undertook during the last Government, the Report and findings of which were published in February 2023. The Report's recommendations include...