Results 161-180 of 9,090 for speaker:Jack Chambers

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Arts Council (26 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO), was approached by the Arts Council regarding difficulties with an IT project in December 2023. In response to that approach, and follow-up discussions, OGCIO commissioned a technical review with the aim of informing the related deliberations of the Arts Council and its parent department. The substantive content of that...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Policies (26 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: My Department is responsible for drawing up and circulating the general rules and frameworks within which public investment by other Government Departments and other bodies under their aegis must be made. The aim of these rules and frameworks, with which Government Departments and public bodies must comply, is to set out in the oversight and governance frameworks for public investment with a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 326 and 327 together. The CFRAM Programme outputs, the Government’s Flood Risk Management Plans, provide the evidence for a proactive approach for designing and constructing flood relief schemes for the most at-risk communities nationally. The delivery of these Plans is supported by government investment of €1.3 billion through the National...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Consultations (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: The report Supporting Excellence: Capital Project and Programme Delivery Capability Review was produced by EY on behalf of the Department and was published in January 2021. The cost of the report was borne by the European Commission through their Structural Reform Support Programme (now named the Technical Support Instrument), so is a matter for the Commission. There was no direct cost to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 329 and 330 together. The questions asked by the Deputy relate to the payment processes and financial systems of individual Contracting Authorities. My Department does not have a role in these processes.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 331, 332, 333, 334 and 335 together. The questions asked by the Deputy are matters of contract management. Individual Contracting Authorities manage the expenditure incurred on their contracts, in their relevant financial systems. Contract performance is managed by the individual Contracting Authorities, in line with the terms laid out in their individual...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 336, 337, 339, 340, 341 and 342 together. FOI applies to a highly diverse range of approximately 450 organisations across the civil and public sector. This ranges from large bodies such as the HSE, to entities with only a small number of staff. In this context, the Freedom of Information Act 2014 is necessarily structured around a devolved model. In the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Freedom of Information Act was substantially reviewed and updated in 2014. Among the steps taken was a significant change to the method for determining whether FOI applies to a particular entity. The 1997 Act had taken a prescriptive approach, whereby FOI applied to an entity only if it was specified in a schedule to the Act, updated from time to time by way of Statutory Instrument....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Consultations (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table below. Year Company Name Nature of the engagement Report and / or recommendations Cost 2023 Arthur Cox Specialist pensions legal advice No €40,266 Byrne Wallace Employment Advice and presentation...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (25 Feb 2025)

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

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (25 Feb 2025)

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

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Arts Council (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: My Department, by virtue of the oversight role of the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO), was first approached by the Arts Council regarding their ICT project in 2019. This was standard procedure as set out in Circular 2/2016 (which has since been superseded by Circular 14/2021: Arrangements for Oversight of Digital and ICT-related Initiatives in the Civil and Public...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: I am advised by the Commissioners of Public Works (OPW) that the Heath is an area of commonage, comprising some 426 acres, located on the Dublin side of Portlaoise. The Heath was a former Crown property, which is vested in the Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP, Delivery and Reform and managed by the OPW. The OPW carries out regular inspections on the Heath, including at the Bog Lake...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Responsibilities (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Deputy will be aware that there are two Ministers of State appointed to my Department: • Deputy Emer Higgins is Minister of State at this Department with responsibility for Public Procurement, Digitalisation and eGovernment; and • Deputy Kevin Boxer Moran is Minister of State at this Department with responsibility for the Office of Public Works. No formal Delegation of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: I am advised by the Office of Public Works (OPW) that it does not obtain market values of vacant surplus properties / sites until these properties / sites are being prepared for disposal, by intra-state transfer or for sale on the open market. When a property or site is being transferred via intra-state transfer to another State body, the current market value is independently...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: The principle of abatement is a longstanding feature of public service pension schemes and its application across all sectors of the public sector was provided for in the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012 (the Single Scheme Act). The Act provides for the abatement of a public service pension where a retired public servant, whose pension is in payment,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Office of Public Works (OPW) has responsibility on behalf of the State for managing and maintaining a substantial and complex estate - comprising approximately 2,500 properties. This extensive and diverse portfolio of State properties extends from Leinster House to Skellig Michael and includes office accommodation for all Government Departments, the property estate for An Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: The Midleton Flood Relief Scheme is being progressed by Cork County Council and is currently estimated for submission to An Bord Pleanála under the Planning and Development Acts by early 2026 and for substantial completion by 2031. Cork County Council has begun to engage with landowners, whose lands have been identified as needed for the scheme. Work is ongoing on environmental surveys...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: A new Garda station for the Castletroy and Annacotty area of Limerick is a priority for both An Garda Síochána and the Office of Public Works, and both organisations have been working closely together to realise this goal. AGS have drafted a preliminary Business Case for a new Station and this was received by the OPW late last year. The OPW has completed a market trawl for suitable...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (25 Feb 2025)

Jack Chambers: Coastal protection and localised flooding issues are matters, in the first instance, for each local authority to investigate and address. The Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme was introduced by the OPW on an administrative, non-statutory basis in 2009. The purpose of the scheme is to provide funding to local authorities to undertake minor flood mitigation works...