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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Properties (21 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Under Section 28 of the State property Act 1954 (the Act) property held by a body corporate at the time of its dissolution becomes vested in the State in the name of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (the Minister). This excludes property held by the body corporate, in trust, for another. The Minister holds what is often termed a defeasible interest as the property will revert to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Funding (21 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised that local flooding issues are a matter, in the first instance, for each Local Authority to investigate and address, and local authorities may carry out flood mitigation works using their own resources. The OPW operates the Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme to provide funding to local Authorities to undertake minor flood mitigation works or studies to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Monuments (21 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy is aware, there are a large number of recorded monuments in the country and a significant number may fall within the description of the term "burial mounds". For the purpose of responding to the question therefore, the word "protected" is firstly taken to mean those monuments in the care of the Office of Public Works and protected under National Monuments legislation. The...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Deer Culls (21 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: In general terms, I wish firstly to advise the Deputy of the general context of the management of the Fallow deer herd in the Phoenix Park. The Office of Public Works has long experience managing the herd gained over many years. This is supported by scientific advice from the School of Biology & Environmental Science at University College Dublin and the Department of Agriculture,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Cycling Facilities Provision (21 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Given the comprehensive nature of this report and the significant engineering options presented, the Office of Public Works is considering the recommendations regarding the cycle and pedestrian paths along Chesterfield Avenue in the context of the Phoenix Park’s historic structure and natural amenities. It is important that regard is had to the wishes and requirements of all users of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputies for all that they have said. As Deputy Pearse Doherty acknowledged, I am in front of this committee regularly. I always do my best to answer any questions the Deputy puts to me even though, frequently, as is the Deputy's right, he may be dissatisfied with the answers that I give. This is my third committee appearance over the past four weeks in addition to the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I have the utmost respect for the multiple, competing pressures of all my colleagues around this table. I appreciate that and know the many duties of each of the committee members. I am committed to resolving this in an orderly way. I am not going to walk out of this committee and create an expectation with the Chairman that this can be done in a minute. That is not the case. The...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: To be crystal clear, the Secretary General has said he will come before this committee. He is crystal clear on this, Chairman. As to the matters that Deputy Doherty has raised on the Committee on Budgetary Oversight, I have been in front of this committee to deal with issues there. I am the person accountable to the Oireachtas and to this committee. The Chairman used the language of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: First, I was not smirking, Deputy McGrath. I do not know what the difference is between a smirk and a grin but whatever I was doing I was doing it because the point Deputy McGrath made at the start of his contribution regarding this committee being the sectoral committee is a point I made myself earlier. This is the committee to which I am accountable and I am in front of all members very...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department and the Secretary General are accountable too. I have said that on a number of occasions. I said when I came into the committee today that the Secretary General has agreed to come before this committee but there are other Oireachtas committees that believe they are entitled to question him. I have found myself in this situation before. For example, when dealing with another...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank Deputy Doherty. I am not saying I will try to resolve the matter. Rather, I am saying I will resolve it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I must come in on two points. First, I reiterate the fact that the Secretary General had agreed to come in, and I have now made a commitment to resolve this matter and ensure we find a way of moving forward on it. Second, there is also an issue of precedent here, which the Oireachtas must reflect on, which is that there are multiple committees that believe they now have a role in this...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (21 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan, and I are pleased to be with the committee to present the 2019 Estimates for my Department’s group of Votes. The group comprises a significant number of Votes, namely, the Votes for the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and for the Office of Government Procurement; the Votes for a number of offices under the aegis of my Department,...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (21 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Is the Chairman referring to that relating to the public expenditure section?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (21 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: If we are going to do that, I might touch on some key elements rather than going through the entire statement, which was distributed to members yesterday and which, I am sure, they have read. Members will be aware that the Department of Finance is divided into two broad areas, namely, the economic and fiscal directorate and the finance and banking directorate. The opening statement gives...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (21 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The rest of my letter which I issued went on to highlight that, in the context of a no-deal scenario, we said that we would need 600 this year and we would deliver 400 by the end of March, with the other 200 to be delivered across the rest of the year. We would obviously look to deliver it early in the year. I confirm to the committee that the deadlines and timings of those figures will be...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (21 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I have always said that, in the context of a no-deal scenario, it will need 600 staff for this year. We have identified the phasing of that as being 400 by the end of March with a further 200 to follow. We will deliver that.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (21 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: As soon as is needed. What is very different to what I indicated to members last year is that there is a very high level of demand and interest in doing this work. Off the top of my head, I think over 3,000 people applied for these jobs who would then be available when needed. The Revenue Commissioners have decided that there is clearly training and work that needs to be done to get the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (21 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I cannot give an exact figure for all Departments for additional current expenditure for this year but I will come back to the Deputy about it. It will be a highly significant figure, given the amount of additional funding that has gone into agencies and the recruitment of additional staff, especially in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. With regard to my own Vote, the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (21 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: As I have been responding to the Deputy's question, my team has provided information on some of the building blocks. Across a number of Departments, €25 million will be required for current expenditure on additional staffing. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Teagasc and Bord Bia will require €71 million. The Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation...