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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Government Expenditure (12 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 187 and 188 together. Levels of general government revenue and expenditure for the EU-15 are available from Eurostat up to 2017 (2018 outturn will be available in April). Projections beyond this point are not available. Similarly, projections for general government revenue and expenditure for Ireland beyond 2023 have not been compiled by my Department. ...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Treasury Management Agency Staff (12 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The year end headcount of the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) excluding staff assigned to the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) is set out in the table below. Year Headcount 2017 526 2018 556 The table below shows the number of NTMA staff (excluding those assigned to NAMA) by relevant band. The numbers include staff members who left the NTMA during 2018 in addition to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Staff Data (12 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The year-end headcounts for 2017 and 2018 of National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) staff assigned to the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) are set out in the following table: 2017-2018 Year Headcount 2017 264 2018 238 Salary information for year-end 2017 is included on page 115 of the NAMA 2017 Annual Report. The table below shows the number of NAMA officers by relevant salary...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Staff Remuneration (12 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I draw the Deputy's attention to page 113 of NAMA's Annual Report and Financial Statements for 2017 which sets out Note 10.1 - Staff costs. I am advised that an amount of €0.8m was incurred in respect of 10 members of staff who departed under the 2017 Voluntary Redundancy Scheme. Two employees left in 2017 and a further eight were placed on garden leave in 2018 in advance of their...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Resources (12 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Revenue is an integrated tax and customs administration. I am advised by Revenue that it has maintained staffing levels of approximately 2,000 staff across the State in the past five years who are engaged in activities that are dedicated to targeting and confronting non-compliance. These activities include anti-smuggling and anti-evasion, investigation and prosecution, audit, assurance...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Assessments (12 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: In 2012, the Office of Public Works designated 300 areas or communities believed to be at significant flood risk and through the Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management (CFRAM) Programme carried out the largest ever flood risk study in Ireland to date. The CFRAM programme included a risk assessment of areas defended by OPW flood defence schemes, took account of the risk assessment...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Insurance Cover Provision (12 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy will acknowledge that the Office of Public Works has no responsibility for oversight or regulation of the insurance industry in relation to flood risk insurance, or to insurance matters generally. The Government’s strategy is that in return to its investment on flood defence schemes in the most at risk communities, households and businesses should be able to access flood...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Drainage Schemes (12 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Office of Public Works (OPW) is responsible for the maintenance of Arterial Drainage Schemes and catchment drainage schemes designated under the Arterial Drainage Acts of 1945 and 1995. The section of the Nenagh River at Tiermoyle, Latteragh forms part of the Nenagh Arterial Drainage Scheme and is under the auspices of OPW. OPW's scheduled maintenance programme for 2019 includes works on...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Forensic Science Ireland Laboratory (12 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Office of Public Works is undertaking the Forensic Science Laboratory not the Forensic Science Library. The Government is committed to delivering Project Ireland 2040 within the overall multi-year resource envelope that has been set out. For 2019, the capital allocation has increased by €1,325 million or just over 22% above the 2018 allocation as stated in the Revised...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (12 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The issue of the cost overrun in the National Children's Hospital, NCH, went to Government on 18 December 2018. Following on from that decision, my Department has been engaging with the Department of Health and with other Departments in relation to how the increased costs of the National Children's Hospital project in 2019 will be managed within the overall agreed capital allocation for...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Monuments (12 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Sceilg Mhichíl site generally opens to the public in mid-May, weather permitting and assuming the Island has been made safe and ready to receive visitors, and closes at the end of September -beginning of October. Access to the Island is highly variable due to weather and sea conditions and may not be feasible until later than the generally scheduled opening. The Office of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Government Procurement (12 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Office of Government Procurement, OGP, is responsible for developing and setting out the overarching policy framework for public procurement in Ireland. This framework enables a more consistent approach to public procurement across the public sector by setting out the procurement procedures to be followed by public bodies. While the OGP sets out the policy framework, responsibility for...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (12 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Commissioners of Public Works are not in receipt of any request for extra office space in Thurles for, the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection’s Intreo office, An Garda Síochána’s National Vetting Bureau office or An Garda Síochána’s Fixed Charge Processing office.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Insurance Cover Provision (12 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy will acknowledge that the Office of Public Works has no responsibility for oversight or regulation of the insurance industry in relation to flood risk insurance, or to insurance matters generally including where flood insurance may impact on property sales. The Government’s strategy is that in return to its investment on flood defence schemes in the most at risk...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service Accountability (12 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Department of Finance Circular 12/2010: Protocol for Civil Servants Nominated to the Boards of Non-commercial State Bodies outlines the steps to be taken when a civil servant nominee to the Board of non-commercial State bodies has an unanswered concern where there is a significant public policy issue at stake which is not being satisfactorily addressed by the Board. The provisions of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Meetings (12 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware, the person in question is a senior official in my Department. Consequently, like any senior official, he would meet with myself, the Minister of State, advisers and other senior officials in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in the normal course of his work. The Deputy may wish to note that my diary for the period in question is a matter of public...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Correspondence (12 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware, the person in question is a senior official in my Department. Consequently, like any senior official, he would be in contact with myself, the Minister of State, advisers and other senior officials in my Department in the normal course of his work. On that basis, I do not plan to publish correspondence as set out in the question. Under the Freedom of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Advisers Data (12 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to inform the Deputy that non-civil service appointments in my Department are made in line with “Instructions to Personnel Officers - Ministerial Appointments for the 32nd Dáil”, which include “Guidelines on staffing of Ministerial offices” issued by my Department. Details of special advisers contracted by my Department since 2017 are outlined in the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Data (12 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Capital expenditure is sanctioned through the line departments or bodies given a delegated sanctioning role by those departments. These 'sanctioning authorities' are responsible for monitoring the projects and dealing with cost overruns that arise within their capital sanctions. The Public Spending Code published by my Department sets out the principles which apply in relation to project...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Children's Hospital (12 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department has already released correspondence with the Department of Health through a Freedom of Information request. Under the FOI Act 2014 any individual can request access to official records held by Government Departments. However, there are some potential limits to the information releasable, for example in relation to commercially sensitive information, that may need to be taken...