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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...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Cross-Border Projects (5 Mar 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 72, 80 and 83 together. Ireland and the UK are currently partners in two EU-funded cross-border Cooperation Programmes – PEACE and INTERREG – with a total value of €550 million over the period 2014-2020. These programmes are 85% funded by the EU through the European Regional Development Fund under the European Union's Cohesion Policy. The...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (5 Mar 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Facing challenging and legally binding greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, it is imperative that the assessment of public investment projects include an appropriate valuation of the cost that society will bear in dealing with the increased greenhouse gas emissions a project might give rise to. Under the National Mitigation Plan, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Funding (5 Mar 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I am well aware of the coastal erosion at Portrane and I visited the area on the 18thOctober 2018 to view the commencement of the interim works. Local Authorities lead on identifying works to protect the coast in their respective areas and Fingal County Council are continuing to liaise with the OPW regarding a long term solution for the protection of Portrane. The interim works consist of...

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

Paschal Donohoe: Sections 3 and 23 of the Public Service Pay and Pensions Act 2017 and Section 5 of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act No. 2 of 2009 (as amended) provide, taken together, for accelerated payments only in respect of those public servants who have engaged with and are complying with the Public Service Pay Agreement 2018-2020. Public servants who are members of trade...

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

Paschal Donohoe: Strategic policy responsibility for the coast, including coastal erosion, is a matter for the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government. Local Authorities are responsible for the management of the coastline, including response to coastal erosion risk within their administrative areas. My Office has responsibility for co-ordinating government policy on flood risk management...

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

Paschal Donohoe: The Office of Government Procurement on behalf of the Minister for Public Expenditure & Reform carried out a competitive tender process for the establishment of a Framework Agreement for the provision of External Workplace Investigation Services (EWIS) available to central government departments and other public bodies. It is Government policy as set out in Circular 16/13 that public...

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

Paschal Donohoe: The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform requires those charged with the delivery of public works projects to comply with the Public Spending Code and the Capital Works Management Framework (CWMF). The Public Spending Code sets out the high level principles which apply in relation to project governance and, in particular, the procedures that must be followed by bodies with...

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

Paschal Donohoe: As I have no responsibility for assigning individual roles in other Departments I am unable to provide the Deputy with a breakdown of procurement officials or salary costs in that regard as it would be a matter for the individual Minister concerned. I have made enquiries from the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA), which is designated as the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA)...