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Finance Bill 2020: Financial Resolution (11 Nov 2020)

Michael McGrath: I move: 1. THAT PART 35A of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, which applies transfer pricing rules to certain arrangements between associated persons, be amended in the manner and to the extent specified in the Act giving effect to this Resolution. 2. THAT Schedule 2 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (No. 39 of 1997), which deals with the machinery for assessment, charge and payment of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Brexit Supports (11 Nov 2020)

Michael McGrath: Budget 2021 provides around €340 million for measures to prepare for Brexit through the continuation of existing measures as well as a number of new supports. This builds on more than €700 million of Brexit measures in successive Budgets since the UK referendum on EU membership, bringing Brexit expenditure to over €1 billion. Budget 2021 provides additional funding for a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (11 Nov 2020)

Michael McGrath: Grants from Voted expenditure to all bodies are accounted for to the Dáil in the annual Appropriation Accounts. The total amount of grants paid across all Votes each year is not calculated by my Department. The requirements of my Department in respect of the Management of and Accountability for Grants from Exchequer Funds are set out in Circular 13/2014. My Department provides a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (11 Nov 2020)

Michael McGrath: The purpose of capital investment projects undertaken by my Department, including the Offices of Government Procurement (OGP) and the Chief Government Information Officer (OGCIO), is to deliver greater effectiveness and efficiency across the Civil and Public Service, in the context of initiatives set out in reform plans such as Our Public Service 2020 and the Public Service ICT Strategy. As...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (11 Nov 2020)

Michael McGrath: I propose to take Questions Nos. 80 and 81 together. I wish to advise the Deputies that neither my Department nor the bodies under its aegis have had any engagement with the named company or the named subsidiaries for the purposes of renting or leasing office space.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (10 Nov 2020)

Michael McGrath: The Northern and Western Regional Assembly (NWRA) is the designated Managing Authority for the Border, Midland and Western Regional Operational Programme 2014-2020 in the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Managing Authorities are responsible for managing expenditure and claims to the EU in relation to the ERDF. To support Managing Authorities in this work, Technical Assistance is...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (10 Nov 2020)

Michael McGrath: I propose to take Questions Nos. 338, 339, 340 and 341 together. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has provided grant funding to Benefacts, a not-for-profit organisation, for a pathfinder project in the area of data on the non-profit sector. This grant funding agreement ceases on 31stDecember 2020. During the period of the grant agreement, my Department commissioned an...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Nov 2020)

Michael McGrath: On an ongoing basis there are significant dealings between my Department and the Department of Health on a number of fronts and in particular this has been intensified in 2020. My Department also meets with the HSE in conjunction with the Department - usually in the format of the regular meetings of the Health Budget Oversight Group (HBOG). In the course of these ongoing contacts there has...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (10 Nov 2020)

Michael McGrath: The table below provides the details requested by the Deputy on roles filled through Open Competition, Inter Departmental Competition, Confined Competition and Mobility on an annual basis from 2016 to 2020 (to date). I wish to advise the Deputy that an estimated salary cost to the exchequer has been provided and, as clarified by the Deputy, details for generalist grades only. All posts...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (5 Nov 2020)

Michael McGrath: Pensions for established civil servants who are not members of the Single Public Service Pension Scheme (SPSPS) were provided for under Section 2 of the Superannuation Act 1859 (as amended by section 2 of the Superannuation Act 1909). The Act provides for payment of an annual pension equivalent to one eightieth of salary for each year of service capped at forty years’ service. In...

Estimates for Public Services 2020: Referral to Select Committee (4 Nov 2020)

Michael McGrath: I move: That, notwithstanding Standing Order 215 of the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to Public Business the following Further Revised Estimates for the Public Services for the year ending 31st December, 2020, be presented to the Dáil and circulated to members on 4th November, 2020, being a date later than that prescribed for the presentation of Estimates and be...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Remuneration (3 Nov 2020)

Michael McGrath: I propose to take Questions Nos. 455 and 472 together. The reduced new entrant pay scales for civil and public servants introduced in 2011 were abolished in 2013 under the Haddington Road Agreement, where it was agreed to merge the new scales and existing scales - typically by adding the lower two points of the new scale to the existing scale. As such there are no separate reduced pay scales...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Charities Regulation (3 Nov 2020)

Michael McGrath: Under the 2011 Comprehensive Review of Expenditure, the Central Expenditure Evaluation Unit in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform produced a paper titled "CEEU Cross-Cutting Paper No.1 Rationalising Multiple Sources of Funding to Not-for-Profit Sector." (Copy supplied.) Acton 4.2 of The Department of Rural and Community Development's strategy to support the community and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Semi-State Bodies (3 Nov 2020)

Michael McGrath: I do not have primary Ministerial responsibility for any of the commercial Semi State bodies. Under the various scheme rules, in the first instance, it is a matter for the Government Department under whose aegis responsibility for individual commercial semi State Bodies falls to consider and approve any pension increase sought, with the consent of the Minister of Public Expenditure and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Equality Proofing of Budgets (3 Nov 2020)

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. The National Strategy for Women and Girls 2017-2020 also contains a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Bodies (3 Nov 2020)

Michael McGrath: The Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB) is one of six North South Implementation Bodies established on foot of the Good Friday Agreement in order to facilitate North South cooperation. The SEUPB is headquartered in Belfast, with satellite offices in Omagh and Monaghan, and is co-sponsored by my Department and by the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland. SEUPB's primary responsibility...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Michael McGrath: Government Departments and Offices have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated public health requirements by introducing new measures of flexibility in working arrangements. Civil Service Departments and Offices have been advised by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, as standard practice across the public service during COVID-19, to consider all forms of flexible...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Measures (3 Nov 2020)

Michael McGrath: The Public Sector Standards Bill 2015, as with all Bills before the Oireachtas, lapsed with the dissolution of the Dáil in January last. This Bill would have consolidated the current legislative framework governing the ethical obligations of public officials and would have given effect to relevant recommendations of the Mahon and Moriarty Tribunals. The Programme for Government contains...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Michael McGrath: The Public Service Sick Leave Scheme was introduced in 2014. The Scheme standardised paid sick leave arrangements across the generality of the Public Service and includes a provision for extended leave in the case of critical illness or injury. A review of the operation of the Scheme was carried out in 2016 and the issue of a phased return to work was one of the issues considered. The...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Prison Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Michael McGrath: As the Deputy may be aware, the previous Government approved the current pension increase policy for the pre-existing public service pension schemes (i.e. all pension schemes apart from the Single Public Service Pension Scheme) as part of its commitments under the Public Service Stability Agreement 2018-2020 (PSSA). Under this policy, which applies for the duration of the PSSA, pay...