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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy may be aware, I have overall policy responsibility in relation to public service occupational pension schemes payable to retired public servants. Under the current rules pertaining to supplementary pensions, individuals are required to engage with the Department of Social Protection (DSP) to exhaust their Social Insurance entitlements in order to qualify for the payment of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, I have overarching responsibility for public service pension policy, including in relation to pension increases in the public service. As the Deputy may be aware, a frequently used method of post-retirement pension adjustment for retirees public service pension schemes is known as ‘pay parity’. This method of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Research and Development (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department has not commissioned any research through the North South Ministerial Council, Shared Island Initiative or other all-island arrangements since its establishment in 2011. My Department is co-sponsor, together with the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland, of the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB), a North South Implementation Body established under the Good Friday Agreement...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, I have overarching responsibility for public service pension policy, including in relation to pension increases in the public service. As the Deputy may be aware, a frequently used method of post-retirement pension adjustment for retirees public service pension schemes is known as ‘pay parity’. This method of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, I have overarching responsibility for public service pension policy, including in relation to pension increases in the public service. As the Deputy may be aware, a frequently used method of post-retirement pension adjustment for retirees public service pension schemes is known as ‘pay parity’. This method of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to advise the Deputy that a deferred reply will be issued to her in respect of this Parliamentary Question, in line with Standing Order 51(1)(b).

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy may be aware, I have overall policy responsibility in relation to public service occupational pension schemes payable to retired public servants. An occupational supplementary pension seeks to make up the difference between the occupational pension which would have been payable had that pension not been integrated, and the occupational pension in payment when combined with any...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Equal Opportunities Employment (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 391 and 392 together. As the Deputy may be aware, under the Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) Act 2004, the responsibility for recruitment in each sector of the Public Service is a matter for the relevant Minister. In the case of recruitment to the Civil Service, for which I have policy responsibility, the Public Appointments Service...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As you may be aware, I have overall policy responsibility in relation to public service occupational pension schemes. However, specific sectoral pension schemes in the wider public service are a matter for the Minister of the parent Department for the body concerned, in this case the Minister for Health. The specifics of some of the below material therefore relates to the history of the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, I have overarching responsibility for public service pension policy, including in relation to pension increases in the public service. As the Deputy may be aware, a frequently used method of post-retirement pension adjustment for retirees public service pension schemes is known as ‘pay parity’. This method of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, I have overarching responsibility for public service pension policy, including in relation to pension increases in the public service. As the Deputy may be aware, a frequently used method of post-retirement pension adjustment for retirees public service pension schemes is known as ‘pay parity’. This method of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I am informed by the National Shared Services Office (NSSO) that due to Data Protection the NSSO cannot comment in public on an individual’s personal pension entitlements. However, the NSSO have advised that they have contacted the individual directly to advise them on this matter

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: General Practitioner Services (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Awaiting reply from Department.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Process (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: A review of the FOI regime has been undertaken and is at an advanced stage of completion. The review process has been an open and collaborative one, taking in the views of a wide range of stakeholders. It commenced with a scoping process which sought the views of stakeholders across all sectors in setting the direction of the review. Approximately 1,200 responses were received at this...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery (17 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I am informed by the Regulator of the National Lottery that the chances of winning the Lotto jackpot are available on the National Lottery website and are 1 in 10.7 million. This version of the Lotto game commenced in 2015. There are detailed procedures in place to ensure the integrity of every draw and independent observers from KPMG check that each step is followed for each and every draw....

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I am here in the Seanad to present the Appropriation Bill 2023. It is a key component of the overall budgetary process. Although it is technical, it is fundamentally important and has to be concluded by both Houses of the Oireachtas before the end of this year. The Bill has two crucial objectives. The first is to authorise in law the spending, which has taken place throughout the year....

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank Senator Davitt for recognising the importance of the Bill and supporting its swift passage. His support is much appreciated. Regarding the points made by Senator Kyne, I recognise that the Senator has been raising concerns and issues related to the operation of Inland Fisheries Ireland for some time. I have heard him contribute strongly on this topic at a number of parliamentary...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: An Garda Síochána (14 Dec 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy may be aware, I have overall policy responsibility in relation to public service occupational pension schemes payable to retired public servants. My Department is aware that there are some issues concerning the procedures for qualifying for the payment of an Occupational Supplementary Pension and we are liaising with the Department of Social Protection and other key...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (14 Dec 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to advise the Deputy that a deferred reply will be issued to her in respect of this Parliamentary Question, in line with Standing Order 51(1)(b).

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of the Ombudsman (14 Dec 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The Office of the Ombudsman is funded as part of the Vote for the Office of the Ombudsman (Vote 19). The activities of the Ombudsman represent one of the programmes making up the overall Vote (the others are Commission for Public Service Appointments, Office of the Protected Disclosures Commission, Office of the Information Commissioner, Commissioner for Environmental Information and the...