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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Projects (24 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: Due to the nature of the role of my Department, it does not have any infrastructure projects being built or commissioned. As Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, I am responsible for setting the overall capital allocations across Departments and for monitoring monthly expenditure at Departmental level. The responsibility for the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Regional Assemblies (24 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: I can confirm to the Deputy that I received and reviewed a copy of the Briefing Note - Regional Infrastructure Priorities for the Northern and Western Region from the Director of the Northern and Western Regional Assembly. I would also like to remind the Deputy that the responsibility for the management and delivery of individual investment projects or sectoral policy strategies, within the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (19 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: A secondments provides opportunities for staff members to broaden their skills and continue their professional and personal development while retaining the right to return to their substantive or equivalent position in the sending organisation at the end of the secondment. It also provides an opportunity for the receiving organisation to fill a temporary position with both the receiving and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (19 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: The NSSO review has found that a number of civil service retirees who were both working on a reduced working hours basis and in receipt of pensionable allowances, were potentially underpaid. While a scoping exercise is underway, the review will not be grade specific and will focus solely on those individuals identified in this cohort of retirees. The NSSO is committed to ensuring...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (19 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Civil Service Blended Working Policy Framework provides an overarching framework to inform Civil Service organisations when developing their own blended working policies and other related initiatives. My Department’s own internal Blended Working Policy is fully aligned with that framework. Meeting the business needs of the Department in order to deliver efficient, high-quality...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of the Attorney General (18 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: We have committed in the Programme for Government to “update the Ethics in Public Office legislation”, which includes the Standards in Public Office Act 2001. This follows a wide-ranging review of the legislative framework that my Department undertook during the last Government, the Report and findings of which were published in February 2023. I am now moving to consider in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (18 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 53 to 62, inclusive, together. In relation to the review of CET and WHT, the NSSO review is ongoing. To date, this has identified a small number, approx. 30 cases, of retired senior Civil and Public Servants who are impacted by the late application of appropriate CET and WHT taxes. The individual liabilities range from a few hundred euro to approximately...

Presentation and Circulation of Revised and Second Further Revised Estimates: Motion (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: I move: That, notwithstanding Standing Order 222 of the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to Public Business or the Resolutions of the Dáil of 1st April, 2025 and 21st May, 2025, the following Revised Estimates and Second Further Revised Estimate for Public Services for the year ending 31st December, 2025, be presented to the Dáil and circulated to members on 17th...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: Public procurement is governed by EU legislation and national regulations with the aim of promoting an open, competitive and non-discriminatory public procurement regime that delivers the best value for money for the State. All Irish public bodies are obliged to spend or invest public funds with care, and to obtain optimal value for money in accordance with the Public Spending Code. The...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: Departments and Offices are permitted to carryover unspent capital, up to a maximum of 10 per cent of their Voted capital, into the following year. Statutory provision for capital carryover by way of "deferred surrender" to the Exchequer is made under Section 91 of the Finance Act 2004. Capital carryover is an important technical element of the multi-annual capital envelope system which...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: As part of the oversight and monitoring role of my Department, officials collate public service staffing data on a quarterly basis. The table below shows the total full-time equivalent (FTE) end-year numbers, as supplied to my Department by the relevant Departments, in this capacity. Growth in Public Service Numbers (FTE) by Sector2019-2024 ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Health Services (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service and Reform and Digitalisation works from the centre of Government to drive the delivery of better public services, living standards and infrastructure for the people of Ireland. As highlighted in my Department's Statement of Strategy (2023 to 2025), it aims to promote effective corporate governance and accountability...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: The NSSO review has identified that some members of the current and previous Governments and a number of serving office holders are impacted. I understand that the NSSO has commenced engagement with those impacted.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: The NSSO’s review into all three cohort impacted is ongoing and final figures have not yet been determined.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: The NSSO has identified an issue with the calculation of pension entitlements for retirees who were working on a Reduced Working Hours/Shorter Working Year basis and in receipt of certain allowances at the time of retirement.  The NSSO review is underway to identify those impacted; in these instances individuals will receive, in most cases, small pension increases. The NSSO is...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Websites (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: My department and the Dept of Taoiseach currently employ the data analytics platform Matomo for website monitoring. Please find here attached the data requested for both departments for the twelve months from 11 June 2024 to 11 June 2025.Please note – In late 2024 the government analytics provider changed for operational reasons. Therefore the data for the period from 11 June 2024 to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: The NSSO is engaging directly with those identified by the reviews to date. For those impacted who owe money to the state the NSSO will be seeking collection of their tax liabilities.  Retirees who were working on a Reduced Working Hours/Shorter Working Year basis and in receipt of certain allowances at the time of retirement, are also impacted by the NSSO review.  In these...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: This is a matter for the Information Commissioner to answer, as the Information Commissioner is independent in the performance of his function as a matter of law and in practice.  Section 43(3) of the Freedom of Information Act, 2014 refers. The Commissioner has indicated that he is happy to engage directly and will provide a response on the matters raised.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 330 and 329 together. This is a matter for the Information Commissioner to answer, as the Information Commissioner is independent in the performance of his function as a matter of law and in practice.  Section 43(3) of the Freedom of Information Act, 2014 refers. The Commissioner has indicated that he is happy to engage directly and will provide a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (17 Jun 2025)

Jack Chambers: This is a matter for the Information Commissioner to answer, as the Information Commissioner is independent in the performance of his function as a matter of law and in practice.  Section 43(3) of the Freedom of Information Act, 2014 refers. The Commissioner has indicated that he is happy to engage directly and will provide a response on the matters raised.