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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: -----from the delivery of the children's hospital. Deputy Bacik asks what steps the Government is taking to ensure this hospital is delivered. As she rightly says, the most important thing now is how we learn from what has happened, how we get the hospital open and how we get it providing care to sick young children. What steps are we taking in this regard? Two main steps are being...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The board is a representative of the State here. The board is taking action on behalf of the Government. The Deputy knows well that that is the case. She is making a claim regarding the Government not being involved in this despite the fact that the board of the hospital is acting on behalf of the Government. As regards the charges the Deputy made regarding the performance of our...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: It does not matter what answer I give to the House. It does not matter how I look to answer Deputy McDonald today. Her response is always going to be the same - to find any answer insufficient and to find any evidence of progress or an attempt to deal with the issue not good enough. I outlined in my answer to her that we do not accept as sufficient or satisfactory where this project stands...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank Deputy McDonald for raising this issue. Week after week in the Dáil, she and other Deputies, including Government Deputies, raise the ongoing concerns relating to the need to meet the healthcare needs of sick young girls and boys and the improvement we have to make to how healthcare is provided to our youngest. That is why the national children's hospital is so important and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The table below sets out the total number of Freedom of Information requests received by my Department in the years specified, along with a detailed breakdown of the number granted, part-granted, refused, transferred, withdrawn and ongoing. Year Total Received Granted Part-Granted Refused Transferred Withdrawn Withdrawn and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Ireland will receive approximately €1.15 billion in funding from the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) in respect of measures included in our National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP). The RRF is a performance based instrument with payment contingent on the achievement of milestones and targets. The NRRP is pre-funded through the estimates process and the National...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Appointments Service (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I am informed by the Public Appointments Service that Publicjobs propose to launch a new competition for Executive Officers with fluency in the Irish Language in Q4 2024. It is expected to be advertised in early October.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Appointments Service (19 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I am informed by the Public Appointments Service that in accordance with the provisions of Section 160 of the Local Government Act 2001, the Minister of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (through a delegated power) declared the qualifications for the role of Senior Executive Engineer. The Public Appointments Service (publicjobs) are the recruiters for certain permanent...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: When I appeared here in July, the Government had published the summer economic statement and we discussed the agreed budget parameters. Today I will brief the committee on developments since then that will affect the considerations being made as part of the budgetary negotiation process ahead of budget day on 1 October. While budget 2024 was framed in the context of the cost-of-living...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The €14.5 billion does not include the allocation of any additional money that could come from the sale of bank shares, either in the future or what has already happened. I am as aware as Deputy Doherty of the pressures that our country faces in the building of more homes. I do not accept that our plan is failing. If I look at the number of new homes that have been built, the number...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I will kick off very quickly. On Deputy Durkan's point about the importance of looking after the Single Market, I think we all agree with that on this side of the table. On the national development plan, trying to ensure that the money available leads to homes and improvements in our capital and economy and all of that happening quicker, we are making efforts to do that. I fully accept...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: In the annex to the summer economic statement, there is a section regarding our well-being performance dealing with the performance of things that really matter within our society. That information is sourced from the CSO well-being information hub. It compares Ireland's performance across 35 well-being indicators and compares our performance to other countries. Very briefly, progress was...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I will kick off there. I thank Deputy Canney. I entirely agree with his point that with so much funding being available through the Apple decision, it is imperative we make a decision regarding how we spend that money wisely. When Ireland experienced a gain such as this before, for example, the money that was made available for us in regional cohesion funding through our membership of the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: No.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Absolutely not. A taxpayer is not accountable to the Deputy or to the Parliament for their tax affairs. They are accountable to the Revenue Commissioners and there is a clear line that we should not cross here. A taxpayer is accountable to the Revenue Commissioners, an independent non-political body, for their tax affairs. They are not accountable to Parliament for it.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: It is a taxpayer and it is an employer. I strongly believe that if we get to a point that a taxpayer believes they are going to be accountable for the conduct of their tax affairs to a Parliament in public as opposed to the Revenue Commissioners, which is independent and private, that is a line and a division of powers we should not break. The short answer to the Deputy's question is that I...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Yes.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: If the Deputy wants to reduce it to the understandable paradigm of the average person on the street, I think that if the average person on the street had a difficulty or their tax affairs were not in order, they would have a reasonable expectation they would be answering to the Revenue Commissioners about it and not to the Deputy. They would be dealing with it in private with the Revenue...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: -----but the Deputy did ask me a question, which I have answered.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: It is the same Central Bank that is also telling us not to overheat the economy. It is the same Central Bank that is telling us there are not enough workers in the economy to build the projects that we need and warning of capacity constraints. It is the same bank saying all of this. We have to listen to the other part of what it is saying, which is in addition to the part the Deputy is...