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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Customer Charters (6 Sep 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department is very conscious of the need to provide the highest level of service to our customers.  All staff in my Department are committed to ensuring that the twelve principles of Quality Customer Service are embedded in everything we do. The number of complaints received in the years in question is shown in the following table.  Year Number of Complaints Received 2017...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (6 Sep 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Public Procurement is governed by EU legislation and National rules and guidelines. The aim of these rules is to promote an open, competitive and non-discriminatory public procurement regime which delivers best value for money. Public procurement procedures require applicants to meet certain standards when applying for public contracts.  The criteria upon which contracting...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Budgets (6 Sep 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Managing the delivery of public services within budgetary allocations is a key responsibility of every Department and Minister and this includes the Department of Health. The Minister of Health has indicated that there are cost pressures emerging this year but it is too early to predict the extent of any cost overrun that may emerge on the Health budget. I and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Budgets (6 Sep 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The HSE Capital Plan, published recently, provides for €220m capital funding to the CNU programme over the period 2019 to 2021 and also sets out the current status of all projects within the programme. Managing the delivery of this programme within budgetary allocations is the responsibility of the Department and Minister for Health.  This Department is in regular...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Internships (6 Sep 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to inform the Deputy that no unpaid internships have been issued or granted to persons to work in my Department from 28 August 2014 to date.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Cyber Security Data (6 Sep 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department has specialist resources, with the appropriate skills and expertise, tasked with managing cyber security.   My Department implements a defence-in-depth security strategy which is achieved through the effective combination of People, Processes, and Technology to support the implementation of appropriate security measures and provisions, including monitoring and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Operations (6 Sep 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department builds resilience into its ICT solutions as a matter of course and has disaster recovery plans and sites.  Disaster recovery forms part of the overarching Business Continuity framework for my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (6 Sep 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The purpose of the paper is to examine expected changes in the age structure of the Irish population and how these specific changes impact areas of public expenditure in the short, medium and long term. The demographic projections in the paper are based on the assumption that the only variables changing over the period are the size and age distribution of the population. Pension projections...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (6 Sep 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Public Service Management Act 1997 sets out in law the duties for which civil  servants are responsible and accountable in their Departments and Offices. The Act empowers Ministers to assign specific responsibilities to Secretary Generals and Heads of Offices. These responsibilities include: advising the relevant Minister; implementing government policy; monitoring these policies and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Regulator (6 Sep 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Regulator of the National Lottery has confirmed that under section 42 of the National Lottery Act 2013, it is a criminal offence to sell or offer for sale a National Lottery ticket to a minor. However, the Regulator does not have the mandate to initiate criminal investigations or to prosecute criminal offences.  The remit of the Regulator with regard to potential...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Spending Code (6 Sep 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: As part of the ongoing reform of Ireland’s capital management systems, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is updating the Public Spending Code.  The purpose of this update is to strengthen the existing guidance to better align with the realities of project delivery and with a particular focus on improved appraisal, cost estimation and management.  The Office of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (6 Sep 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government recognises the importance of the SME sector and continues to enhance the already substantial measures to support SMEs in accessing the public procurement market. Significant work has been undertaken by the Office of Government Procurement (OGP) to ensure that public procurement is accessible by all businesses, including SMEs. My colleague, Minister of State Patrick...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Statutory Retirement Age (6 Sep 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I refer the Deputy to my answer to his PQ 32729/19 on 23 July 2019, which is copied below for the Deputy's convenience. There has been no change to this policy matter since July. As the Deputy is aware, on 5 December 2017, the Government made the decision to increase the compulsory retirement age to 70, for public servants recruited prior to 1 April 2004. Primary legislation was necessary in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (6 Sep 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I refer the Deputy to Parliamentary Question No. 307 of 23 July 2019. Under the Public Service Stability Agreement (PSSA) 2018 – 2020, it was agreed to examine the remaining salary scale issues in respect of post January 2011 entry grades. The attached report, laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas in March 2018, estimates the point in time cost of pay equalisation of new...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Budgets (6 Sep 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Gross voted current and capital expenditure ceilings for the 2020 to 2022 period were published in July of this year in the Mid-Year Expenditure Report (MYER). Table 1.3 on page 8 of the MYER sets out gross voted current expenditure ceilings and table 1.4 on page 9 of the report sets out gross voted capital expenditure ceilings. These tables are also provided in appendix 1. In terms of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Claims Agency Data (11 Jul 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The content of this response has been advised to me by the State Claims Agency (SCA) on the basis of information extracted from the National Incident Management System. The SCA is part of the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA), which is a body under the aegis of the Minister for Finance. The SCA have confirmed that this information is correct as of 30th June 2019 as it covers...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Reform (11 Jul 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 156 and 157 together. As you are aware, the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection’s (DEASP) A Roadmap for Pensions Reform 2018 – 2023 was published last year. While implementation of the Roadmap is primarily a matter for my colleague, Ms Regina Doherty T.D., the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection and her...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Cyber Security Protocols (11 Jul 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: In relation to my Department, I wish to advise that ICT services are provided by the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO) under the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.  My Department implements a multi-layered approach to cyber security and to protecting ICT systems, infrastructures, and services.   On behalf of my...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Brexit Preparations (11 Jul 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 159, 160, 196, 199, 215 and 216 together. In relation to question 30734and in the context of extensive and detailed Brexit preparedness and contingency work across all Government Departments and Agencies, Revenue determined that in a ‘Central Case’ scenario (i.e. an orderly withdrawal of the UK from the EU, to include a transition period until...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Living Wage (11 Jul 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to inform the Deputy that the cost of implementing a living wage of €12.30 per hour for all employees directly employed by my Department would be approximately €82,000 annually. Of the 17 bodies under the aegis of my Department, I am informed that 8 would incur no additional costs by implementing a living wage of €12.30 per hour. These are the Credit Review Office,...