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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: -----but I know it will only be heightened by the exchange that we are having here today. Given the funding we are making available for special education, particularly for these schools, to meet the needs of the pupils and support the teachers, I hope this can be brought to a place where the school can get the support it needs so its valuable work can continue in the future.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy appears to be approaching this issue through the lens of claims that may or may not be made at election time. That is not the approach of this Government. We have a senior Minister with responsibility for disability. That Minister is Deputy Donnelly. The Government made a decision to move disability services out of the Department of Health and move them. Excuse me; the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The issues the Deputy is raising are ones the Government takes seriously. I go back to the point that I made in reply to Deputy McDonald. Amid the different figures that we will trade and the general political claims that will be made here, I am keenly aware of that young girl or young boy with a disability or additional needs and the support she or he needs early in life. I am keenly...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy very much for raising what is a very important issue for the school and for education policy in general. I know she agrees that all the girls and boys who go to that school and their teachers deserve support and recognition in the learning received and the teaching provided. It is therefore very important that this issue be raised here today. I will comment on the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Legal Cases (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to advise the Deputy that a deferred reply will be issued to him in respect of this Parliamentary Question, in line with Standing Order 51(1)(b).

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Data Protection (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect on 25 May, 2018. To prepare for this critical date, my Department agreed a range of new internal data protection policies including a formal data breach management policy, the objective of which was to ensure that any data breaches are dealt with as required under Articles 33-34 of the GDPR. Since...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Official Travel (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Please see the total travel costs associated with my Department between 2019 and to date in 2024 below. I would ask the Deputy to note that my travel costs for 2023 and 2024 were recouped from the European Council as I was travelling on Eurogroup business. The only exception to this was a visit to London in May 2024 where I represented the Government at an Ireland Funds event. I would also...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has not incurred any costs related to public relations during the period specified.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Consultations (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to advise the Deputy that a deferred reply will be issued to him in respect of this Parliamentary Question, in line with Standing Order 51(1)(b).

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Advertising (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The information requested by the Deputy in respect of my Department from 2014 to date is set out in the table below. Year Expenditure on Traditional Advertising Expenditure on Online Advertising 2014 Nil Nil 2015 €564 Nil 2016 €1,334 Nil ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commissions of Investigation (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department has not been responsible for a Commission of Investigation since its establishment.

Appointment of Members of the Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Motion (15 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I move: That Dáil Éireann, noting that the Government agreed on 8th October, 2024, to propose, for the approval of Dáil Éireann, the appointment or reappointment, as the case may be, of the persons concerned to be members of the Legal Services Regulatory Authority, and pursuant to sections 9 and 10 of the Legal Services Regulation Act, 2015, approves the appointment of...

Supplementary Estimates for Public Services 2024: Leave to Introduce (15 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I move: That leave be given by the Dáil to introduce the following Supplementary Estimates for the service of the year ending on the 31st day of December, 2024: Vote 20 — Garda Síochána (Supplementary Estimate). Vote 21 — Prisons (Supplementary Estimate). Vote 22 — Courts Service (Supplementary Estimate). Vote 24 — Justice (Supplementary...

Social Welfare (Consolidated Claims, Payments and Control) (Amendment) (No. XX) (Jobseeker's Pay-Related Benefit) Regulations 2024: Motion (15 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft: Social Welfare (Consolidated Claims, Payments and Control) (Amendment) (No. XX) (Jobseeker's Pay-Related Benefit) Regulations 2024, a copy of which was laid in draft form before Dáil Éireann on 10th October, 2024.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: There is a process.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thought you were all in favour of process.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Deputy Carthy is in bad form.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Deputy Carthy is in bad form today.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (15 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The procedures for Ministerial consent of a pension increase in commercial semi state bodies are outlined in the Amendments to the Annex on Remuneration and Superannuation of the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies, which were introduced by Department of Public Expenditure and Reform Circular 16/2021. The Code of Practice provides that it is initially a matter for each...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (15 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The number of staff in the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform's communications and press office teams from 2019 to present is laid out in the tables below. 2019 Grade Number of staff Principal Officer 0 Assistant Principal 4 Higher Executive Officer 2 Administrative Officer 0 Executive...