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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: The commissioner can form a view and act on it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: Are there restrictions on how he or she formed that view?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: Where are the checks and balances on that particular power? One could get a commissioner who could go rogue.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: A commissioner may have an issue with an individual and use the powers of his or her office to deal with the individual.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: Somebody misusing the powers.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: Hence there should be guidelines as to how one manages that power.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: I do not see where we are going here. I presume this gives the power to the deputy commissioner to appoint a member of staff as opposed to going out on the street.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: Maybe I am being naïve here but I believe it is just tidying up matters so the deputy commissioner can do his or her job and so the staff members can do their job without having to seek powers every time there is an investigation. Is this just being practical or is there something else?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: It seems to be a theme that the weight of right is completely with the commissioner and with this proposed office. The commissioner can make the call on whether a hearing will be held in public or private but if the person whom the hearing is about wishes to have it in public, he or she will have to apply to the commissioner in this regard. The commissioner can decide on that. Is there an...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: It is completely judicial. There are oaths and witnesses.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: We are in a judicial process. There is a hearing where people are under oath, documents are privileged, the commissioner decides on costs and then this quasi-judicial hearing will maybe dictate whether there could be a criminal investigation. A criminal investigation does not normally presume guilt but in this circumstance guilt would have been determined before a criminal investigation...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: There has been a hearing, potentially in public, where evidence has been heard and the commissioner makes the call on the outcome of the hearing. That is in public, the findings are discussed and then a criminal investigation starts.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Connectivity Fund (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of proceeds from the Aer Lingus sale invested in the connectivity fund; the details of the projects that received investment to date from the fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17359/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund Investments (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: 114. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that has been allocated and invested of the €7.5 billion in ISIF funding towards the capital plan; the projects funded for; the amount of investment per project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17356/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Private Partnerships (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: 201. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the rationale for imposing the rule that the total cost of public private partnerships, PPPs, including up front direct Exchequer costs, must be limited to 10% of the total annual Exchequer capital spending; if he has reviewed this rule and if he will consider revising the rule; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17354/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: 211. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of money to date that has been spent on the capital plan; the details of the expenditure by Department and by year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17350/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: 212. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the capital expenditure for the remainder of the capital plan broken down by Department and year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17351/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: 213. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of money that has been committed but not spent under the capital plan; if he will provide a breakdown of the expenditure by Department and by year it is planned to be spent, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17352/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: 214. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if any amount of money committed under the capital plan has been removed from the capital plan; the amount of money involved, the specific projects removed, the amount of this money that was reallocated to other projects, the detail of these projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17353/17]