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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I would like to acknowledge the deputy's interest in the issue of benefit take-up; and note that the deputy has raised this issue recently in relation to a number of specific benefits and tax reliefs including Working Family Payment, Carer’s Support Grant, the Household Benefits Package, and tax allowances and reliefs. In relation to this question concerning benefits across...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Given the Deputy's great interest in Fine Gael representation, I am pleased to tell him that come the next election, I have every confidence that Senator John Cummins will get elected to the Dáil. The Deputy seems to be focused on the past. We are focused on the needs of today and are confident about the story we will be putting forward. We will be confident about the ability of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (15 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Chair and committee for the invitation to speak to them today. I am accompanied by Mr. Ken Cleary and Mr. Patrick Moran from the climate division in the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform. I look forward to engaging with the committee and discussing the role of my Department in achieving the sustainable transition of society and our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (15 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Sure. On the Deputy's point on the evaluation of business cases and the length of time involved in that, we have to look at how we have conducted our work, what works and how we can do it even better in the future. The point I respectfully make to the Deputy is when we get to the point when BusConnects starts being built, for those of us who have been involved in it and have seen some of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (15 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: ..., I will disappoint the Chairperson and say no. I think what would happen is that most Government Departments would argue that their projects are sustainable and that they should be going into one process and not the other. I believe we are better off having a single approach that puts a lot of focus on carbon cost, which we are trying to do with a change in our investment guidelines,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (15 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the members for their questions. We roughly totted up the number in response to Deputy O'Rourke's question. I started counting people but then I realised I was going to miss some important colleagues. We think we have around 15 to 20 people in the team overall working on climate in the Department, which makes it a good share of the overall organisation's headcount. They are a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (8 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: ...all well aware of the scandals and the huge difficulty Anglo Irish Bank created. Anglo Irish Bank was a commercial organisation for nearly all of its existence. This is indicative of the general tone of suspicion Sinn Féin has in respect of very important State bodies that do excellent work on our behalf. On the one hand, the Deputy talks about the need for the State to be expanded...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (8 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I welcome the proposed agreement that was made at the WRC two weeks ago, following a challenging set of discussions. In my view, it is an Agreement that seeks to achieve a balanced approach to public service pay that rewards the ongoing efforts of public servants, while ensuring the responsible management of public finances. This has been Government’s ambition throughout this process....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (8 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government has committed to €165 billion in capital investment through the National Development Plan (NDP) published in 2021. As a percentage of national income, annual capital investment is now among the largest in the EU. In 2024, €13 billion will fund vital infrastructure in areas such as housing, transport, education, enterprise, sport and climate action. Achieving value...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (8 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: In considering a move to a four day working week in a public service context, there are two main concerns – the cost to the taxpayer and ensuring the continuity of services to the public. There would be substantial costs associated with any move towards a four day working week in the public service. It is not clear that increased productivity would be sufficient to offset that...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (8 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy is aware, a broad range of factors, of which accommodation costs is only one, influences staff recruitment and retention. As a result of Ireland's robust economic growth, unemployment is low and labour market conditions are tight. Labour and skills shortages are presenting recruitment and retention challenges for employers across the labour market, including the civil and...

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I am privileged and humbled to join colleagues in offering my condolences to Finola, to the Bruton family and especially to our dear friend and colleague, Richard, on the passing of his brother, John. If I may, I will address a word to our colleague, Deputy Richard Bruton. I hope this afternoon that the affection, respect and deep understanding of your brother that has been expressed by many...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Period Poverty (7 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Department of Health established the inter-Departmental Period Poverty Implementation Group ("IG"), with representation from most Government Departments, to achieve cross sectoral input and to co-ordinate oversight of implementation measures recommended by the Discussion Paper. As the Department of Health established and chairs this group, some of the detailed information below was...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - the Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 -the Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I am pleased to be here today to present the 2024 Estimates for my Department’s group of Votes. I am joined by the Minister of State with responsibility for public procurement and eGovernment, Deputy Ossian Smyth. There are ten Votes under the public expenditure, national development plan delivery and reform Vote group: Vote 11 – Public Expenditure, National Development Plan...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - the Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 -the Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I do not accept that. The Deputy is perpetuating the idea in his question and the way he put it to me of a perpetually inefficient public service. I fundamentally disagree. For example, the delivery by our public service of making a broadband plan happen, its ability to make projects happen in higher universities and in places of third-level learning throughout the country, and the speed...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - the Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 -the Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: ...price inflation for projects that are publicly tendered and the risk that cost price inflation could accelerate in the future. Second is the matter raised by Deputy Tóibín, that is, our ability to move important public projects, and in particular I highlight infrastructural projects in energy, through our planning system. Third, and I am a little bit more optimistic about the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (28 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government has committed to €165 billion in capital investment through the National Development Plan (NDP) published in 2021. As a percentage of national income, annual capital investment is now among the largest in the EU. In 2023, almost €12 billion will fund vital infrastructure in areas such as housing, transport, education, enterprise, sport and climate action....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (26 Oct 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government has committed to €165 billion in capital investment through the National Development Plan (NDP) published in 2021. As a percentage of national income, annual capital investment is now among the largest in the EU. In 2023, almost €13 billion will fund vital infrastructure in areas such as housing, transport, education, enterprise, sport and climate action....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Equality Proofing (21 Sep 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: While the development of sector-specific policy proposals and assessment of the likely equality impacts of these are a matter for the Department with responsibility for a given area, the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform is leading the development of a range of initiatives to enhance the level of transparency and accountability about the use of public funds through the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Chair. The Minister for Finance, Deputy McGrath, has covered off the general economic outlook, so I will go right to the section of my speech that focuses on our medium-term expenditure strategy. As the committee will be aware, the two most recent two budgets utilised a dual approach of revising our medium-term expenditure strategy while utilising supplementary non-core...