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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Appointments to State Boards (12 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to the Deputy's question, officials from my Department have been appointed to 21 boards or agencies. The provisions of Circular 12/2010, Protocol for Civil Servants Nominated to the Boards of Non-commercial State Bodies, which are also incorporated within the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies, apply to officials of the Department of Public Expenditure and...

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

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 209 and 210 together. The establishment of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, NPHDP, and the appointment of its members is a matter for the Minister for Health. The Chief Procurement Officer was appointed in a personal capacity to the NPHDP in 2013 for a five year term by the then Minister for Health. He was re-appointed in 2018 by the...

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

Paschal Donohoe: I've been involved in a number of discussions around the Children’s Hospital over the last few years. The first full assessment of the cost overrun and the reasons for it was received by my Department in the form of a report from the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board submitted by the Department of Health on the 19 November. My Department reviewed the report and met with...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Government Construction Contracts Committee (12 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government Construction Contracts Committee, “GCCC”, was established under Section 11 of Circular 40/02, “Public Procurement Guidelines – revision of existing procedures for approval of certain contracts in the Central Government sector”, which inter aliare-configured the existing arrangements for the Government Contracts Committee. The GCCC is a forum...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme Review (12 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: 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 2019, in light of the multi-year management of the broad range of capital projects, amounting to upwards of €7 billion this year. I am...

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

Paschal Donohoe: The Government is committed to delivering Project Ireland 2040 within the overall multi-year capital 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 Estimates for Public Services 2019. With regard to implications arising from the National Children’s...

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

Paschal Donohoe: 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 Estimates for Public Services 2019. With regard to implications arising from the National Children’s...

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

Paschal Donohoe: 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 Estimates for Public Services 2019. With regard to implications arising from the National Children’s Hospital...

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

Paschal Donohoe: 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 Estimates for Public Services 2019. With regard to implications arising from the National Children’s Hospital...

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

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 218 and 220 to 222, inclusive, together. The current position on these flood relief schemes is set out in the table below. Scheme Current Status Arklow Wicklow County Council is progressing flood protection measures for the town of Arklow with funding provided by the Office of Public Works. Consultants have been commissioned to undertake engineering and...

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

Paschal Donohoe: 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 Estimates for Public Services 2019. With regard to implications arising from the National Children’s Hospital...

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

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised that the Office of Public Works approved funding to Kerry County Council of €75,000 in March 2018 under its Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection scheme for a Coastal Erosion & Flood Risk Management Study for Dingle Bay East-Castlemaine Harbour. The area mentioned in the Deputy’s question is included in this study. Kerry County Council is...

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

Paschal Donohoe: Kerry County Council carried out a pre-feasibility study for the Sneem area, the recommendation of which was to carry out further more detailed river modelling to assess the feasibility of the measures identified in the pre-feasibility study. Working in co-operation with Kerry County Council, the Office of Public Works (OPW) have agreed to undertake this study and assessment, which will be...

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

Paschal Donohoe: 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 colleagues. The key role in leading development at county level...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (7 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I have outlined to the House on a number of occasions the timeline upon which I and my Department became aware of the overspend. We have outlined the timing during which this happened from early November onwards and we have outlined the work the Department of Health has done to get to this point. Clearly there are learnings we have to look at in respect of the implementation of a two-stage...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (7 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: It was due to the integration of the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform that we have been able to move ahead on projects overall such as Project Ireland 2040. Because the two Departments are located under me as Minister, we are able to make integrated decisions on taxation and spending. We are able to look at the level of money we need to raise to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (7 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: A decision was made this week on the Collooney to Castlebaldwin motorway, for example.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (7 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: This project is a much-needed motorway. It can and will make a very big difference to commuters and citizens in the State. Other projects are going ahead successfully about which we never hear a word of recognition from Deputy Broughan.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Retirements (7 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 16 and 41 together. The Public Service Superannuation (Age of Retirement) Act 2018 provides for an increase to age 70 in the compulsory retirement age of most public servants recruited before 1 April 2004. The Act provides that I, as Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform will, within three months of the passing of the Act, prepare and lay before...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Retirements (7 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I will ask the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan to take this point.