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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: No.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (22 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: Table 1 of the 2024 Summary Public Capital Programme set out below details the multi-annual public capital investment for 2024 and 2025 by Ministerial Group. The responsibility for the management and delivery of individual investment projects, within the capital allocations agreed under the National Development Plan, rests with the individual sponsoring Department in each case. ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Policies (22 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The Capital Works Management Framework (CWMF) represents the tools that a public body must use to procure and manage the external resources necessary to deliver a public works project that is to be delivered under the Exchequer-funded element of the National Development Plan. It consists of a suite of best practice guidance, standard contracts, generic template documents and procedures that...

Supplementary Estimates for Public Services 2023: Leave to Introduce (21 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I move: That leave be given by the Dáil to introduce the following Supplementary Estimates for the service of the year ending on the 31st day of December, 2023: Vote 2 — Department of the Taoiseach (Supplementary Estimate). Vote 9 — Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary Estimate). Vote 11 — Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and...

Estimates for Public Services 2023 (21 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I move the following Supplementary Estimate: Vote 29 — Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary Estimate).That a supplementary sum not exceeding €938,606,000 be granted to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of December, 2023, for the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Environment,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Cybersecurity Policy (21 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 193, 194, 195 and 196 together. For operational and security reasons, my Department does not disclose specific information relating to cyber security tools, spend, in house expertise and specific strategies employed to counter and combat the threats posed to information security. I am in a position to advise the Deputy that the Department engaged an external...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (21 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: As set out in my reply of 14 November 2023, an independent evaluation of investment priorities and capacity of the National Development Plan (NDP) is currently being conducted by the ESRI. The evaluation is focusing on the capacity to deliver current Government priorities, to utilise sectoral capital allocations and to estimate the impact of the NDP on key economic indicators. Given...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (21 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: 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: Departmental Data (21 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: 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: Budget 2024 (21 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: One of the main parts of the annual budgetary process is determining the amount of funding required for Departments to carry out their existing functions, before any new decisions are taken. This is referred to as the ‘Existing Level of Service’ or ELS. ELS funding provides provision for the maintenance of our existing services and schemes. The Medium Term Expenditure Strategy,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (16 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy is aware, it was necessary to pause transfers of pensionable service to/from CIÉ under the Public Sector Transfer Network (PSTN), pending clarification of CIÉ's position with regard to funding those transfers. Following consideration of this matter, and clarifications received from CIÉ through the Department of Transport, such transfers of service are no longer...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (16 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The request for supplementary information has been made under Section 7B(4) of the European Union (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Arterial Drainage) Regulations 2019. Section 7B(4) does not stipulate the imposition of deadlines for the compliance of such a request. Where a request is made under Section 7B(4), the Commissioners of Public Works are obliged to comply with such a request. ...

Supplementary Estimates for Public Services 2023: Leave to Introduce (15 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I move: That leave be given by the Dáil to introduce the following Supplementary Estimates for the service of the year ending on the 31st day of December, 2023: Vote 5 — Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Supplementary Estimate). Vote 7 — Office of the Minister for Finance (Supplementary Estimate). Vote 29 — Environment, Climate and Communications...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: Unbelievable.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The Good Friday Agreement matters.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: No, he is not.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (15 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: As of 1 January 2013, all new entrant public servants are members of the Single Public Service Pension Scheme, and this is reflected in their contracts of employment. The Single Scheme is a statutory Public Service Career-Average Defined Benefit Pension Scheme, established on 1 January 2013 under the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012. The entitlements of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (15 Nov 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. For all new entrants to the public service (including members of An Garda Síochána) on or after 6 April 1995 (the date of introduction of full social insurance for public servants who now pay Class A PRSI) and before 1...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Correspondence (14 Nov 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. For all new entrants to the public service (including those working in the health and education sectors, members of An Garda Síochána etc.) on or after 6 April 1995 (the date of introduction of full social insurance for...