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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (3 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: As Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitisation 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...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (3 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Programme for Government sets out the clear ambition to prioritise the delivery of transformative, critical and growth-enhancing infrastructure over the next 5 years. To deliver on these objectives, my Department is leading a Review of the National Development Plan, which will cover all public capital investment from 2026 to 2035 and encompass both Exchequer and non-Exchequer sources of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (3 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: As Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitisation 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...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (3 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 143 and 146 together. Delegated sanction is the policy in place across most of the public service for the management of public service staffing levels since 2015. Civil Service numbers are managed by Departments within the context of overall public service numbers and published pay bill allocations. Delegated sanction was introduced by Government in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Information and Communications Technology (3 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: Our Government Digital Wallet programme is aligned with the EU Digital Identity (EUDI) Regulation. Ireland plans to transpose the EUDI legislation in line with the set regulatory timetable, to give the Digital Wallet full legal status by end-2026. The Government Digital Wallet has already been prepared for launch and we are working with the relevant departments, including the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (3 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: Upon my appointment as Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Services, Reform and Digitalisation, I met with the Minister of State with responsibility for Public Works and the Chairman of the OPW to discuss the upcoming strategic priorities of the organisation in the context of the Programme for Government. The Deputy will be aware that the Programme for Government makes a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (3 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: In 2022, the most recent year for published data, the reported rate for the employment of people with disabilities in the Civil Service was 5.7% (2022). This is an increase from 5.4% in the previous year, and it exceeded the legislative target at that time (3%). This is the most recent published data available from the National Disability Authority (NDA). The Disability Act 2005 compels...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Industrial Relations (3 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: The employees of agencies that are funded under Section 38 of the Health Act 2004 are classified as public servants. They are subject to the standard salary scales for the health sector as well as having access, in the main, to a public service pension scheme. The employees are included in public service employment numbers. Accordingly, staff employed by Section 38 organisations benefit...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (3 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Single Public Service Pension Scheme is a statutory Public Service Career-Average Defined Benefit Pension Scheme, established on 1 January 2013 under the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012.The provisions of the Single Scheme are clearly set out in law and were enacted on 28 July 2012. All new-entrant public servants hired after 1 January 2013 are members...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (3 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: As Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitisation 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...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (3 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: As Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitisation 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...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (3 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Programme for Government sets out the clear ambition to prioritise the delivery of transformative, critical and growth-enhancing infrastructure over the next 5 years. To deliver on these objectives, this Government has prioritised and agreed to commence an early review of the National Development Plan to be completed in summer 2025. The Review will encompass all public capital...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (3 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: Total capital investment in 2025 will be almost €15 billion which is the highest annual spend to date in the history of this country and four times the level of investment only 10 years ago. This continued investment is providing housing, school buildings and transport infrastructure all across the country, building capacity for our future.In the past five years, Government has...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (3 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: I would like to thank the Deputy for his question, which, following clarification, I understand is in relation to Supplementary Pensions in the Single Public Service Pension Scheme. The Single Scheme is a statutory Public Service Career-Average Defined Benefit Pension Scheme. It was established on 1 January 2013 under the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (3 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: My Department have refreshed the requirements for capital projects in the Infrastructure Guidelines, reducing the number of approval stages prior to implementation from 5 to 3 and streamlining the requirements for major projects, raising the level of cost at which a project is considered a major project to €200m. This allows for projects below this limit to proceed more speedily...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (3 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Single Public Service Pension Scheme is a statutory Public Service Career-Average Defined Benefit Pension Scheme, established on 1 January 2013 under the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012. The Single Scheme was established to place publicly-funded retirement benefits on a more sustainable footing in the context of longer life expectancies. All new...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (3 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Single Public Service Pension Scheme is a statutory Public Service Career-Average Defined Benefit Pension Scheme, established on 1 January 2013 under the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012. The Single Scheme was established to place publicly-funded retirement benefits on a more sustainable footing in the context of longer life expectancies. All new...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: Securing value for money is an ongoing priority for this Government and is at the heart of all decision making, at every stage of a policy or programme lifecycle. Delivering value for money is about securing the efficient and effective use of public resources in the pursuit of better public services, living standards and infrastructure for the people of Ireland. It is not solely concerned...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (3 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: 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: National Development Plan (3 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 205 and 206 together. The Programme for Government sets out the clear ambition to prioritise the delivery of transformative, critical and growth-enhancing infrastructure over the next 5 years. To deliver on these objectives, the Government has prioritised an early review of the National Development Plan, to be completed in July 2025. The Review will...