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Appropriation Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I know I am right. I am wary of making points with absolute certainty but the point I am making to the Deputy is that the State is directly involved in building homes. It does so through local authorities. The majority of those 11,938 homes would have been built directly by local authorities, which is the State. That is the argument I am making to the Deputy. To suggest the State is not...

Appropriation Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank all Deputies for the contributions they have made. I will respond now to a number of the matters that were raised in this debate, including the issue of accountability in relation to the huge amounts of money that I am asking the Dáil to vote on this afternoon. I thank Deputies for recognising the importance of the passing of this legislation but I would emphasise that in order...

Appropriation Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: But the money is not lost. The point that was being made or suggested was that because this is a carryover, the money is being handed back but that is wrong. In fact, because it is a carryover, it is being retained within the Department but spent in a different year. The absence of a carryover would mean the money is not being spent in the Department but the presence of a carryover means...

Appropriation Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to introduce the Appropriation Bill 2024 to the House. It is critical annual financial legislation. It has to be enacted before the end of the year to give effect to the authorisation of voted expenditure throughout 2024 and to allow for the continuation of expenditure into 2025. It has two main functions. The first is to...

Estimates for Public Services 2024 (6 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I move the following Supplementary Estimates: Vote 4 — Central Statistics Office (Supplementary Estimate)That a supplementary sum not exceeding €400,000 be granted to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of December, 2024, for the salaries and expenses of the Central Statistics Office. Vote 5 — Office of the...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputies who have contributed to the debate, namely, Deputies Conway-Walsh, Sherlock, Phelan, Shortall, Ó Cuív, Collins, McGrath, O'Donoghue, Ó Snodaigh and Violet-Anne Wynne, who made some concluding comments. I will pick up on a couple of points made. Every speaker who contributed to the debate offered support for the Bill and I thank them very much for doing...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: A Chathaoirligh, I should inform the Deputy we are not discussing that Bill. This is the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill. The Appropriations Bill has not yet been taken.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: We are not; this is the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill. The Deputy is referring to the Appropriations Bill, which is later today.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The Houses of the Oireachtas Commission came into existence on 1 January 2004 under the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Act 2003. The founding commission legislation had two principal consequences. First, the commission became the sanctioning authority for expenditure, for deciding on staff numbers up to the grade of principal officer...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Deputy McDonald would not have acknowledged that.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I know that. Nor is it about the Deputy’s sensitivities.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: You have not met enough of them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Yes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: That is all Sinn Féin has to offer.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (6 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: 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: Earcaíocht san Earnáil Phoiblí (6 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Tá poistphoiblí (an tSCP) lántiomanta na dualgais atá acu faoi Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla agus na spriocanna earcaíochta atá ann a bhaint amach. Faoi na spriocanna sin, tá ceangal orainn a chinntiú go mbeidh 20 faoin gcéad, ar a laghad, de na hearcaithe go léir sa tseirbhís phoiblí ina gcainteoirí líofa Gaeilge faoi...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: It falls under the justice Vote.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I am sorry; I have just been corrected. It falls under the Vote for the Chief State Solicitor, which is under the Department of the Taoiseach. It is under the office of the DPP.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I have just been informed it is under the Office of the Attorney General. In any event, it is not under our remit but that of the Taoiseach.