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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Service Pay Commission Reports (5 Mar 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Public Service Pay Commission has adopted a modular approach to its work programme for its present exercise focused on recruitment and retention issues in the public service. As the Deputy will be aware, the first module was published by the commission in August 2018 and deals with issues relating to nursing and midwifery, non-consultant hospital doctors and hospital consultants. The...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Service Pay Commission Reports (5 Mar 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The reason is that my own Department has overall responsibility for pay policy. As a result, we are present or involved in the preparation of submissions to the pay commission. The Deputy will know that in addition to the submissions that the employer makes, submissions are also made by those who represent employees, which, one hopes, allows the Public Service Pay Commission to make a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Service Pay Commission Reports (5 Mar 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: It is a matter for the pay commission to determine when it will be able to complete the module. It is independent of my Department and reaches its own conclusions about the report and its processes. Nevertheless, as I have outlined, I expect the commission to indicate soon the timeline of the completion of the work. I hope that its indication of a timeline, which will be the first time it...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Equality Proofing of Budgets (5 Mar 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Following a commitment in A Programme for a Partnership Government to ‘develop the process of budget and policy proofing as a means of advancing equality, reducing poverty and strengthening economic and social rights’ an Equality Budgeting pilot was implemented for the 2018 budgetary cycle. The approach I have taken in introducing Equality Budgeting is that equality budgeting is...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Stability Agreement (5 Mar 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The provisions of the Public Service Stability Agreement 2018-2020 apply to those unions who have confirmed in writing to the Workplace Relations Commission that they agree to be bound by the terms of the agreement. The union referenced by the Deputy, (INMO), has subscribed to the Public Service Stability Agreement and is currently considering a Labour Court Recommendation to resolve an...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Budgets (5 Mar 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Expenditure Report 2019 set out total gross voted expenditure of €66.6 billion for 2019. Of this, €59.3 billion is gross voted current expenditure, while €7.3 billion is gross voted capital expenditure. Ministerial allocations, as agreed by the Government, were set out in further detail in the Revised Estimates Volume (REV) published in December. The effective and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Monuments (5 Mar 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Office of Public Works has responsibility for the management of the Hill of Tara National Monument site and operates a seasonal Guide service based at the former Church of Ireland building on the site. It also provides maintenance services and manages both Monument structures and the extensive acreage involved. Tara is clearly an important historical site which is popular with many...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Contracts (5 Mar 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The period immediately following the introduction of the public works contracts in 2007 was marked by a severe contraction in construction output in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008. In addition to a number of high profile insolvencies tender, prices dropped by 30% as contractors competed to win the remaining work available. In 2014 the performance of the public works contracts...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (5 Mar 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 58, 71, 74 and 165 together. The Labour Court decided to intervene in the nursing dispute due to the grave and extensive implications for our health services and patient safety. In making its decision the Labour Court acknowledged that "The Public Service employers made clear to the Court that any resolution of the within dispute must take place within the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (5 Mar 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Brú na Bóinne complex is one of Ireland's major visitor attractions and one of two UNESCO World Heritage sites in the State. The investment at Brú na Bóinne, supported by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and the Fáilte Ireland Capital Grants Programme, includes improvements in three separate areas: at the Brú na Bóinne Visitor...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Customs and Excise Controls (5 Mar 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: While ratification of the Withdrawal Agreement is still the Government's priority, we will continue our preparations for all scenarios. On 11 December 2018, the Government decided to give greater immediate priority to the preparations for a no deal Brexit. This work is ongoing and includes all Government Departments and Agencies. It includes measures both nationally and in conjunction with...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (5 Mar 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Managing the delivery of public services within allocations and meeting our budgetary targets forms a key part of the responsibilities of every Minister and Department. My own Department is in regular contact with all other Departments and Offices to ensure that expenditure is being managed within the overall fiscal parameters. Monthly expenditure profiles for each Government Department...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (5 Mar 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 62, 76 and 84 together. In my role as Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform I am responsible for setting the overall capital allocations across Departments and for monitoring monthly expenditure at a Departmental level. Decisions on how and where those allocations are invested by Departments are a matter, in the first instance, for my Ministerial...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Private Partnerships Cost (5 Mar 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: A breakdown of the annual cost of unitary payments by individual project can be found on the PPP website. The cost of unitary payments for 2018 is in the region of €260 million. Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) are partnerships between the public and private sectors for the purpose of delivering a project or service. Some of the advantages associated with PPPs are that they...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Social Welfare Benefits Data (5 Mar 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Indexation of social welfare allowances and benefits is a matter in the first instance for my colleague, the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (5 Mar 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: As I informed the Deputy in my response to his written question of 27 November 2018 (PQ Ref: 49185/18), there is no formal mechanism to include recipients of public service pensions within the industrial relations framework and pay determination processes in the public service, and I understand that under employment and trade union law, trade unions can only represent workers in employment in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (5 Mar 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Department of Finance Circular 33/06 requires all public works projects that are delivered under the Exchequer-funded element of the Government's capital plan to be procured in accordance with the provisions laid down in the Capital Works Management Framework (CWMF). The CWMF is an integrated set of contractual provisions, guidance material, technical templates and procedures which cover all...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (5 Mar 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: On the 12th of February, I published how the €99m necessary this year for the timely provision of the National Children’s Hospital will be accommodated with a minimum of disruption to the scheduled rollout of key infrastructure projects under Project Ireland 2040. I also detailed reforms designed to ensure world class project management across the whole of Government. I have...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (5 Mar 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy is aware the unwinding of the emergency FEMPI legislation commenced with the Lansdowne Road Agreement 2016-2018 and will be mostly unwound under the Public Service Stability Agreement 2018 -2020. The Public Service Pay and Pensions Act 2017, provides for further significant lessening of the impact of PSPR by way of threshold and rate changes to apply on 1 January 2019 and 1...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Government Construction Contracts Committee (5 Mar 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Department of Finance Circular 33/06 requires all public works projects that are delivered under the Exchequer-funded element of the Government's capital plan to be procured in accordance with the provisions laid down in the Capital Works Management Framework (CWMF). The CWMF is an integrated set of contractual provisions, guidance material, technical templates and procedures which cover all...