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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...

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...