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Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: To provide further support to families raising children, two double payments of child benefit will be made to all qualifying households in November and December. There will also be a double payment of the foster care allowance. To ensure our supports are targeted to those families who need them most, a €400 lump-sum payment will be made to recipients of the working family payment...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: -----at the right time. ADDING TO OUR INFRASTRUCTURE I wish, therefore, to briefly address the funding arising from the recent decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union. These funds are estimated to have a current value of €14.1 billion. This is, as the Minister, Deputy Chambers, acknowledged, a very significant amount of money.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: We also need to recognise that this amount is one-off and equal to the sum we are already planning to invest in the national development plan next year alone. It is vital, therefore, that we make the best use of these funds and get the best outcome for the long term. The Government has agreed the principle that these funds will be invested to expand our infrastructure for the future...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle. INTRODUCTION Today’s budget sets out a positive path for the future while striving to meet the needs of today. It is a budget for an Ireland with a growing population, full employment, public finances in surplus and public services expanding to meet our country’s needs. This positive position is the result of a balanced and planned approach...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (1 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The funding for the Citizens Information Service (CIS) is provided through the Department of Social Protection. I understand that the employees of the CIS are not public servants. As such, their terms and conditions of employment are a matter between them and the CIS. I further understand that a process of engagement is ongoing between the Department of Social Protection, the Citizens...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Measures (1 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The main purpose of the Civil Service Regulation and Public Service Management (Amendment) Bill is to amend the Civil Service Regulation Acts 1956-2005 and the Public Service Management Act 1997 to provide that disciplinary action up to and including dismissal in the Civil Service can be assigned below the level of the head of the organisation (Appropriate Authority) and other miscellaneous...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Official Engagements (1 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform I met with then Israeli Ambassador to Ireland Ze'ev Boker at his request to discuss bilateral relations in April 2017. Since my appointment as Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform in December 2022 I have had no direct engagement with the Israeli Government or officials. I can confirm that the Ministers of State in the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Consultations (1 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Officials from my Department received training from the Communications Clinic in order to provide the best support to Oireachtas Committees during their appearances. Details of these training sessions and the costs are provided in the table below. Date Topic Cost May 2022 Engaging with Oireachtas Committees €1650 ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Staff (26 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Since my appointment as Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform on 17 December 2022, the following special advisors were appointed: Minister Advisor Duration of Role Held Pay scale Point on Pay Scale Minister Donohoe Deborah Sweeney since 19/12/2022 Principal Officer Point 6 ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flexible Work Practices (25 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I am informed that there has been no change to the Office of the Revenue Commissioner's policy in relation to the preferred equipment to be used when working from home. The Office of the Revenue Commissioner's Blended Working Policy, published in September 2022, states that ‘For security and support reasons, ICT equipment consisting of Thin Client/Monitor/Keyboard/Camera/Headset is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: It is worth making the point that in terms of the total value of claims that have been adjudicated in this period, the net change in the value of the contract is a small amount of the total claims that have been made by the contractor.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: On the standing conciliator, to whom I assume Deputy Kelly is referring-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Standing or independent; it is the same point. It is not really a question for the board as to whether it has confidence in that independent adjudicator. Indeed, it has challenged the decisions that were made by the adjudicator recently through the initiation of High Court proceedings. As I said in answer to questions earlier, I expect and support the board to take all the steps it needs...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: We need the HSE and the hospitals to ensure that the posts they recruit for are posts that are budgeted. That is the general stance in regard to the funding of posts within our health service, as it is across the rest of government. I will raise the specific hospitals the Deputy mentioned with the Minister for Health.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Deputy Harkin knows I do not know the answer to her question. She knows I do not have the information regarding traffic-calming schemes, no matter how important they are, in every village in the country.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: On the general point she raised regarding the need to continue to invest in road safety schemes, the Minister for Transport is committed to doing that, as is the Minister of State, Deputy Lawless. We will continue to ensure that features in the budget.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I have engaged with the Minister of State with responsibility for this area. Neither he nor I played any role in the decision on the bike shed. It was made at official level. I entirely understand and appreciate the anger in regard to it. No Ministers were involved in that particular decision. On our receipt of a report the chairman of the OPW is preparing on this issue, we will look at...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I understood the board had been reconstituted.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: After the resignation of the board that took place a number of years ago, the Department of Finance was successful in reappointing the board. I will raise the issue with the Minister, Deputy Chambers, this week in the context of our budget discussions and see whether there are any issues I can help with. I imagine that the heart of the issue is not lack of funding, but the difficulty of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Okay.