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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Will I take this as it may be a bit more relevant to my Department?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Minister, Deputy Chambers, and I are aware of this issue of people who, late in life, find themselves in a position where they do not own their own home, do not qualify for social and affordable housing, and rent is going up or maybe their rental accommodation is uncertain. With regard to what we are doing in relation to it, this is why funding we are making available to the Department...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I take the Deputy's point but I know the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, is aiming to do that. The plans I would be most familiar with in Dublin City Council, and the mix of homes being built by the city council, are predominantly focused on one- and two-bedroom units. In many cases the focus is on one-bedroom units to provide support for people who need the kind of accommodation the Deputy...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: This is why existing level of service, ELS, funding is going up by so much. It is one of the big reasons. It is very clear to me that the demographic transition, which we used to think about being in the medium term or happening at some point in the future, is happening now and in many different ways. It is happening in our health service and in our schools. We do ELS forecasts and ask...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I did not say they would be ring-fenced-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I did not say they will be ring-fenced because when we start ring-fencing funding for one group of people, then we are always faced with demands to ring-fence funding for other groups of people. The way in which we try to deal with the Deputy's point, which is an important one, is through the ELS funding that is made available to different Departments and we have a forecast for what that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The €24.2 billion refers to where we are with current funding and does not take any account of where we are with capital funding. Regarding the national children's hospital, I am confident that despite the many difficulties we have had with that project and the many issues that we acknowledge we need to handle in a different way, when that hospital is open and running it will make a...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Yes, but sure I said in my answer to the Deputy that I accepted we had to learn lessons from it. On the other hand, now that we publish a cost span for huge projects, we receive commentary in respect of their cost being too big. We acknowledged what went wrong with the national children's hospital project and we have learned to fix it. While I deeply regret some of the issues that happened...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: If I may respond to that, I have great respect for Deputy Healy-Rae. He has been elected to Dáil Éireann many times and I recognise that on many different topics, with all the experience he has, he speaks an awful lot of sense. However, I have to honestly say to him that when I hear him speak about "our people", I flinch. He speaks, for example, about the Ukrainians. Of course,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: If the Deputy will allow me to make a comment, I opened my contribution saying how much I respect him. That should indicate to him that the last thing I am trying to do is banish him. I believe that would also be completely unhealthy. We have to be able to have a debate and discussion, and this is what we are doing.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I will have to check the figure of €2 billion. Last year, we had a figure of €2.6 billion, but that figure included the provision for a pay deal which we were negotiating.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I will check that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The figure of €2 billion last year was to include a pay deal. It included provision for a pay deal. The amount of money we have available for new policy measures is the same. It was €1.8 billion.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Yes, it is.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: If you take 5% of GNI, it gets you to a figure that I am sure is lower than our total capital investment at the moment. It is up to the Government to try to figure out how we get up to that figure of 5% and how quickly we can do it. It is simply not achievable to get to that target in a single go because were we to get to that figure in capital, everybody would raise lots of current spending...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Equal Opportunities Employment (10 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Different bodies take different approaches to gathering the information sought by the Deputy. In many organisations disability surveys are anonymous, so it is not possible to say what type of contract staff are on. It is not mandatory for staff to disclose if they have a disability. The material below sets out the information that is available. Department of Public...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (10 Jul 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, within the allocations agreed under the National Development Plan 2021-30 (NDP), rests with the individual...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Regional Development (10 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Balanced regional development is a key priority of this Government and is at the heart of Project Ireland 2040. We are continuing to deliver and improve infrastructure in all regions in areas such as transport, broadband connectivity, housing and energy. These investments in public infrastructure projects will in turn have a positive effect in delivering employment opportunities and further...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: NextGenerationEU is the EU’s temporary recovery instrument to support Europe’s economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and build a greener, more digital and more resilient future. The centrepiece of NextGenerationEU is the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) - an instrument that offers grants and loans to support reforms and investments in the EU Member States. RRF...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: It is growing, and we are able to recruit and keep people.