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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (8 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I am familiar with the Dungloe to Glenties road and can really imagine the benefit that will be brought to commuters and communities when that project is delivered. I will have to follow up with the Minister, Deputy Ryan, about the further extension that Deputy Pringle has referred to. I know the benefit that a change like that would bring to Killybegs and can see how it would be consistent...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (8 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I do not have any such plans. For such a change to be made, there would need to be clear evidence to underpin a very broad change in how we audit a very broad and significant part of the State. As I said in my answer to the Deputy, there are many organisations that are operating in the commercial environment. It is therefore appropriate, as they are operating in the commercial environment,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (8 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: When the Deputy referenced layers to dysfunction, what organisations was she referring to?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (8 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: We are all well aware of the scandals and the huge difficulty Anglo Irish Bank created. Anglo Irish Bank was a commercial organisation for nearly all of its existence. This is indicative of the general tone of suspicion Sinn Féin has in respect of very important State bodies that do excellent work on our behalf. On the one hand, the Deputy talks about the need for the State to be...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (8 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As Minister for public expenditure, I am responsible for setting the overall capital allocations across Departments and for monitoring monthly expenditure at departmental level. The responsibility for the management and delivery of individual investment projects, within the allocations agreed under the national development plan, rests with the individual sponsoring Department in each case....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (8 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I take on board that point the Deputy has made there. Given the number of projects that are under way in Donegal, it does appear the county should get a bit more reference in the publication to which the Deputy has referred. As he knows, the minute you start naming one county, it poses difficulties for other counties that are not mentioned. It is very difficult to please everybody all the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (8 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Many State bodies classified by the Central Statistics Office, CSO, as commercial are already solely audited by the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General.  While section 1438 of the Companies Act 2014 provides that companies not trading for the gain of their members may be audited by the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General, only regulated private sector audit firms can...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (8 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy for the question. As the Deputy is aware from the various points she has put to me, the Economic and Social Research Institute published its report,The National Development Plan in 2023: Priorities and Capacity, on 12 January 2024. It is important to reiterate the rationale behind why I commissioned this report by the ESRI. A comprehensive review of the national...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (8 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Respectfully I beg to differ. The Deputy asked me the question around how the findings of the recently published report shaped the national development plan in 2023, how we are dealing with priorities and capacities in review of NDP ceilings, and if I would make a statement on the matter. That is the question the Deputy put to me and that is the question I answered. With regard to the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (8 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I had the report in draft format earlier on in the year. I cannot remember if it was available in draft format to my Department before or after the budget because the budget season is always so intense. I did not see the actual report itself until far later in the year. As soon as the report was published it was shared with the Minister for Finance but there will be nothing in the report...

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I am privileged and humbled to join colleagues in offering my condolences to Finola, to the Bruton family and especially to our dear friend and colleague, Richard, on the passing of his brother, John. If I may, I will address a word to our colleague, Deputy Richard Bruton. I hope this afternoon that the affection, respect and deep understanding of your brother that has been expressed by many...

Appropriation Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: We certainly are not.

Appropriation Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: Of course.

Appropriation Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: Absolutely.

Appropriation Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. This is an issue that has come up on a number of occasions when I have brought the Appropriation Bill before the House. I should say to Deputy Ó Snodaigh that when I brought my own Estimates before the relevant Oireachtas select committee, it did contain within it the Estimate we are now discussing. It was potentially available for...

Appropriation Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: -----as part of the Estimate. It is listed as a Vote under my Department, as opposed to the other Departments the Deputy has just listed, because it is possible that a number of other Departments could make a request to use that fund during the year. There has been a long-standing tradition, as the Deputy has just said, that we never comment on its use. It is the only money on which the...

Appropriation Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: When I got the Deputy's amendment, it goes without saying that I took it seriously. First, I treat seriously any amendment to legislation from a Member of the Oireachtas. Second, when this issue about how the Bill had been described came in, it not only caused raised eyebrows, it also raised a question with me to go and verify the correct terminology. My officials went away and checked...

Estimates for Public Services 2024: Motion (13 Dec 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I move: That Revised Estimates for the Public Services for the year ending 31st December, 2024, be presented to the Dáil and circulated to members, pursuant to Standing Orders 95(1)(a) and 215.

Appropriation Bill 2023: Second Stage (12 Dec 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to introduce this Bill to the House. It is a critical piece of annual financial legislation that needs to be enacted before the end of the year. The Bill has two primary functions. The first is to provide the legal authorisation for all of the expenditure that has occurred in 2023 on the basis of the Estimates voted on by...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: No.