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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (8 May 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 224 to 226, inclusive, 232 and 238 together. This issue relates to a claim by community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors who have been seeking, through their union representatives, the allocation of Exchequer funding to implement a 2008 Labour Court recommendation relating to the provision of a pension scheme. In the context of the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Prison Service Staff (8 May 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I can confirm that the attention of my office has been drawn to the particular circumstances of this case, and that my office has responded to correspondence received from the individual concerned. While the matter of making an award under the provisions of the Civil Service Injury Warrants is one that would fall ultimately to my Department, the initial application would be raised in the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (8 May 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: While my Department sets the capital allocations for Departments and the delegated sanction arrangements under which Departments make their spending decisions, the actual roll-out of particular capital projects and programmes is, of course, managed by the individual line Departments and their agencies who are responsible for project and programme delivery. In regard to the Cork Event...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (8 May 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Under the current pension increase policy agreed as part of the Public Service Stability Agreement 2018-2020 (PSSA), pay increases applied to serving staff over the course of the Agreement, including the 1% increase applied to all salaries on 1st October 2018 and the 1% increase applied to salaries up to €30,000 on 1 January 2019, are passed on to those pensions awarded under...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Levy (8 May 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The National Shared Services Office has informed me that the implementation of the PSPR restorations to some pensioners has been delayed primarily due to impaired or missing data that has prevented automatic processing. A dedicated project team is working full time to review each file for every pensioner potentially impacted to correct any data inaccuracies in their records and ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Appointments Service (8 May 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware, the Public Appointment Service (PAS) is the independent recruiter for the civil service. I understand from PAS that an open Third Secretary competition was held in 2018 and 30 people were assigned from the panel to the end of February 2019. As part of ongoing workforce planning the question of holding a further open Third Secretary competition in 2019 will be...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (8 May 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I am taking it that the question refers to the impact of the Government’s pension increase policy, and not to the amelioration and eventual abolition of the Public Service Pension Reduction. As the Deputy will be aware, pay cuts were imposed on serving public servants under the FEMPI legislation in 2010 and 2013. The pension recipient in this case was protected from the effect of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service (8 May 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Irish Government Economic and Evaluation service (IGEES), established in 2012, is an integrated, cross Government service that aims to support better policy formulation and implementation in the civil service through policy analysis and evaluation. IGEES is not a standalone service. IGEES staff are an integral part of each Department, adding their skill set to the varied expertise working...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Intestate Estates (8 May 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Section 73 of the Succession Act 1965 provides that where a person dies intestate and without known next-of-kin the estate of that person shall be taken by the State as ultimate intestate successor. The functions under the Succession Act 1965 were transferred from the Minister for Finance to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform under Statutory Instrument 318 (Transfer of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Government Expenditure (8 May 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: As set out in the most recent fiscal monitor, total gross voted expenditure to end-April 2019 amounted to €20,247 million. This is 5.4% or €1,031 million higher than the same period in 2018 and €146 million, or 0.7%, behind profile.Gross voted current expenditure is up 4.1% or €740 million in year-on-year terms and is 0.8%, or €143 million, below profile....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service Staff Data (8 May 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 243 and 244 together. The information requested regarding the number of Principal Officer positions in County Kildare is not available in my Department. As the Deputy will be aware, Government departments have been working under delegated sanction arrangements for their recruitment and staffing issues since 2015. Under these arrangements, there are...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (8 May 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy will appreciate that it is necessary to distinguish between pension restoration, which refers to the amelioration and eventual abolition of the Public Service Pension Reduction (PSPR), and the pension increase policy agreed as part of the Public Service Stability Agreement 2018 – 2020 (PSSA). Regarding the first of these, the Deputy will be aware that the FEMPI cuts...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Protected Disclosures (8 May 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I can confirm that the attention of my office has been drawn to the particular circumstances of this case, and that my office has responded to correspondence received from the individual concerned. While the matter of making an award under the provisions of the Civil Service Injury Warrants is one that would fall ultimately to my Department, the initial application would be raised in the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Children's Hospital (18 Apr 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: 12 o’clock I assure the Deputy that I have the pleasure of seeing that new building pretty much every week as I visit her constituency for a variety reasons. I am pleased to see it go ahead. While I am glad to see the project being delivered, I must note that the Deputy was part of the Cabinet that made the decision. It is late in the day-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Children's Hospital (18 Apr 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: -----for her to be saying that there are difficulties with it given that she was at the Cabinet table when the decision was made.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Children's Hospital (18 Apr 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: At least Deputy Burton is willing to make constructive interventions to this debate, unlike Deputy Mattie McGrath.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Budgets (18 Apr 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The vast majority of Departments stay inside their expenditure ceilings. Of course, the Department of Health has had ongoing difficulties in doing that. In some years, we made progress in reducing the level of supplementary funding that was needed. In other years, it did not go as I would have wanted. Last year is an example of that. I assure the Deputy that I take my role as seriously...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Budgets (18 Apr 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: When things happen during the year, it can mean that things turn out differently from what Ministers indicated to me at budget time. In such circumstances, I have put supplementary budgets in place in an effort to prevent difficulties from arising. I take the Deputy's overall point that one or two Departments need to be in a better place this year than they were last year.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Children's Hospital (18 Apr 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 12 and 20 together. The management, delivery and oversight of individual projects and public services within the agreed allocations is a responsibility of every Department and Minister.  With this in mind, the monitoring of the national children's hospital project, including the management of the costs and the residual risks, is a matter in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Children's Hospital (18 Apr 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Minister, Deputy Harris, and I have given a commitment that in a number of weeks, we will outline how we intend to respond to the recommendations that are contained in the PwC report. Two of the recommendations are particularly relevant to me. I remind Deputy Burton that the Minister for Health dealt with this matter last night in response to a number of questions from Opposition...