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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (17 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: In March 2023, my Department published Circular 05/2023: Initiatives to assist SMEs in Public Procurement. The circular highlights the positive measures that Contracting Authorities can take to promote SME participation in public procurement across the public sector. The circular also includes a commitment that the measures will be kept under review in light of their impact on SME...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2026 (17 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: This matter falls under the remit of the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport. Decisions regarding the allocation of any such funding ultimately rest with his Department. Given that budgetary discussions are currently ongoing, I am not in a position to provide any further comment.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2026 (17 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: This matter falls under the remit of the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport. Decisions regarding the allocation of any such funding ultimately rest with his Department. Given that budgetary discussions are currently ongoing, I am not in a position to provide any further comment.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (17 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: Public Procurement is governed by EU legislation and national rules/guidelines. EU Directive 2014/24/EU on public procurement (goods, services and works) has been transposed into Irish Law in the form of corresponding Regulation - S.I. No. 284/2016 - European Union (Award of Public Authority Contracts), which forms the legal basis for the national rules governing public procurement. ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Transport Authority (17 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 365 and 366 together. My Department is responsible for the Infrastructure Guidelines, which replaced the Public Spending Code in December 2023. These set the value for money guidance for evaluating, planning and managing Exchequer-funded capital projects. The management and delivery of individual investment projects and public services within allocation...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (17 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 367 and 368 together. The Deputy should note that the figure of €18.5 billion referenced in the Accounting Officer’s opening statement before the Committee of Public Accounts on 10 July 2025 is an estimate only. This estimate is derived from contract notice data published on the national public procurement platform, eTenders, which is managed...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (17 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: As the Deputy is aware, one of My Department’s key responsibilities is to develop expenditure policy in line with Government objectives and agreed fiscal policy over the medium term. This involves working with individual departments and ministers to promote a planned and deliberate approach to public spending that is in line with the annual budgetary parameters and focused on...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Budgets (17 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 370 and 371 together. Vote allocations are decided as part of the Estimates process each year and voted on by the Dáil at the time of the Revised Estimates for Public Services (REV). My Department works from the centre of government to drive the delivery of better public services, living standards and infrastructure for the people of Ireland. We are...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: As part of the budgetary process each year, my Department sets overall expenditure ceilings for each Ministerial Vote Group. These are laid out at Vote level in the Budget day Expenditure Report published in October with further detail provided in the Revised Estimates for Public Services published in December. Following the allocation of each Ministerial Expenditure Ceiling, it is a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: The National Development Plan Review 2025 was published in July and represents one of the largest ever and most significant capital injections in our economy in the history of the State. The Review sets out a total public capital investment of €275.4bn over the period to 2035. This comprises €202.4bn in Exchequer Voted capital expenditure from 2026 to 2035. Of this,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Policy (17 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 374, 375, 376, 377, 378, 390 and 396 together. The Fiscal Monitor is published on the third working day of each month on the Department of Finance website at www.gov.ie/en/department-of-finance/collections/fiscal-monit ors-2025/. The Fiscal Monitor provides both gross and net year-to-date current and capital figures for each vote group. The report also...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (17 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Office of Government Procurement, a Division within my department has established a central procurement solution for Security Services. The Framework was established in September 2024 and will run up to September 2028. Pulse Security is not a framework member of the arrangement.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Statutory Instruments (17 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: The details requested by the Deputy are set out in the table below. These are Statutory Instruments which were signed by my predecessor as Minister or myself, as sole signatories, during 2024 and 2025. Year Name Signed 2024 Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to Central Fund) Order 2024 Minister Donohoe ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (17 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: The River Bride (Blackpool) Flood Relief Scheme requires consent under the provisions of the Arterial Drainage Act 1945 (as amended) before the commencement of construction can occur. The scheme previously received consent in March 2021, however this decision was challenged by Judicial Review and ultimately overturned in early 2022. On foot of both legal advice and the expert views of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (17 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: My Department has published Public Procurement Guidelines for Goods and Services to provide a comprehensive interpretation of the public procurement regulations, S.I. No. 284/2016 - European Union (Award of Public Authority Contracts) Regulations 2016. These guidelines set out the requirements in respect of the determination and application of criteria which tenderers must meet before being...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (17 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: The gender breakdown for my Department at the grades specified is set out in the table below. My Department does not hold this information in respect of all Government Departments and the Deputy may wish to submit a separate Question to the relevant Ministers in this context. Job title Male Female Total Secretary General 1 ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Illegal Dumping (17 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 394 and 395 together. As part of the budgetary process each year, my Department sets overall expenditure ceilings for each Ministerial Vote Group. These are laid out at Vote level in the Budget day Expenditure Report published in October with further detail provided in the Revised Estimates for Public Services published in December. Following the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Radio Spectrum Management (8 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: I can confirm to the Deputy that there is an existing resilient mission-critical radio network using the TETRA standard already in operation and used for Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) purposes.  This network is operated by Tetra Ireland and is designed to provide a reliable and robust emergency network for the State's emergency personnel with the widest possible coverage....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (8 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: Circular 05/2023 sets out that all public procurement tenders, where they have an estimated value above specified national thresholds, must be advertised on the national electronic tendering platform (eTenders). As such, the estimated value of individual public procurement tenders is captured in a central system (eTenders) and available to my Department to report on an aggregated basis, for...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery (8 Sep 2025)

Jack Chambers: I am informed by the Office of the Regulator of the National Lottery that full details of any breaches of the Licence to operate the National Lottery are published in the annual reports of the independent Regulator of the National Lottery, in line with the National Lottery Act 2013. There have been 10 incidences of breaches found between the commencement of the Licence in November 2014 and 1...