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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Private Partnerships (23 Apr 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: ...allow the public sector to avail of private sector expertise and innovation and that the private partner assumes responsibility for a considerable portion of the risk. PPP contracts tend to be long-term arrangements, typically spanning 25 years or more after construction. They can be design, build, finance and maintain, DBFM, projects; design, build, finance, operate and maintain,...

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

Paschal Donohoe: ...proposed by the respective Ministers that are being facilitated by my Department will enhance the options available to members of the uniformed services, and allow them to remain in service for longer if they choose to do so. Furthermore, it will assist in retaining valuable expertise. Following a comprehensive analysis undertaken by my Department to examine the issue of mandatory...

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

Paschal Donohoe: ...services. More generally, the Government is committed to supporting positive ageing across the life course, as well as to ensuring that older people can continue to live independently in their homes and communities for as long as possible. This commitment is enshrined in the National Positive Ageing Strategy, which provides a blueprint for promoting older people’s engagement in...

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

Paschal Donohoe: ...public health, Government guidance and the general return to the workplace. Special Leave with Pay for COVID-19 is not intended to replace sick leave in the Public Service, nor was it designed to address long COVID. Special leave with pay currently applies for the duration of the HSE recommended ‘stay at home period’ following a positive COVID-19 test result. This...

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

Paschal Donohoe: At the core of our strategy to meet targets is the Medium-Term Expenditure Strategy (MTES), which serves two fundamental objectives: to ensure the long-term sustainability of core expenditure growth and to safeguard investments in public services. This framework undergoes annual review as part of the comprehensive budgetary process, including the Estimates process and the Summer Economic...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Assets (9 Apr 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: ...of a testimatory character which was not valid as a will and under which if valid the applicant would be a beneficiary; (c) Where there existed between the applicant and the deceased person, over a long period, an association which was similar to some close blood relationship; (d) Where the deceased person made his or her home with the applicant for an appreciable period and...

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: ...the ambitions that the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, and the Government have in relation to light rail in question, or whether it is what we are trying to do in the city of Dublin - for example, the long standing ambition to build a metro - they are projects that are vital. As this committee probably knows better than I do, it is transport that, over time, will prove our greatest challenge...

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: ...we can electrify our rail network in the future. However, I take the Deputy's point that a lot of this is still too far away for his constituents, many of whom are still involved in journeys that are too long.

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: ...duplicating the work that they are doing. If there are new organisations with a different mandate from ESB or Bord na Móna, we run the risk of them competing with bodies that have been around for a long time or creating organisations that do not have the ability to collaborate with the private sector. I believe the private sector will be essential as the amount of money needed will...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (8 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: ...in making decisions with regard to the allocation of additional capital funding. What we have coming up is a large selection of significant public transport projects. They are all about the long term and will take many years to build. They will all be complex and demanding but will be worth it in the end. With regard to the opening point the Deputy made about the need to make long-term...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (8 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: .... I am now in the process of trying to confirm to individual Departments what their expenditure ceilings will be for 2026. We are doing all of that then be in a position to enable the kind of long-term planning which the Deputy has rightly made the case for.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (8 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: ...national planning framework have made great efforts to achieve regional balance. If we were to be successful in delivering the majority of projects, which I believe we will be, we will have gone a long way to deliver the regional balance we have acknowledged to be important for so long.

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

Paschal Donohoe: ...to public expenditure policy is set out in the Medium Term Expenditure Strategy (MTES). The objectives of the MTES are twofold, to ensure that the level of core expenditure growth is sustainable in the long-term and that investment in expenditure protects and delivers improvements to public services. This framework must be responsive to the economic landscape and is reviewed annually as...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (1 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: ...;739.27 €761.92€784.42€819.55€847.14 0ac;859.81€876.91 Clerical Officer Higher Scale (Non-PPC) €572.35€587.49€610.18€632.89 0ac;655.58€671.87€693.91€712.38 €727.41€748.81€782.16€808.39 0ac;820.49€836.66 ¹ After 3 years satisfactory service at the maximum....

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: ...just due to the fact there might not be enough staff in place to process them at the speed we want but because people have exercised their democratic right to object to them. That has a consequence. It takes longer to evaluate and give an answer to projects, in particular, big infrastructure projects. Nonetheless, I take the Deputy's point, which is a fair one. Up until recently, we...

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: Sure, but that is the reason why, Deputy. I take his point regarding the delays. The delay the Deputy has referred to in his constituency sounds extraordinarily long. That is the reason we have made the additional resources available to An Bord Pleanála. The number of staff it has is being increased considerably. It did so last year and it will do so again this year. It is also the...

Appropriation Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: ...as opposed to the other Departments the Deputy has just listed, because it is possible that a number of other Departments could make a request to use that fund during the year. There has been a long-standing tradition, as the Deputy has just said, that we never comment on its use. It is the only money on which the Dáil makes a decision in respect of which we ask the Oireachtas...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Private Partnerships (28 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: ...they allow the public sector to avail of private sector expertise and innovation and the private partner assumes responsibility for a considerable portion of the risk. The contracts tend to be long term arrangements, typically spanning 25 years or more. A senior-level Inter-Departmental / Agency Group was established to review Ireland's experience of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs)...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (28 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: ...staff, is used for the Civil and Public Service Mediation Service. There are no external mediators currently on the panel. The mediators on the panel are volunteers and remain on the panel as long as they are available to carry out mediations. The panel is subject to constant change. The Civil and Public Service Mediation Service does not utilise paid external mediators.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (28 Nov 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: ...to public expenditure policy is set out in the Medium Term Expenditure Strategy (MTES). The objectives of the MTES are twofold, to ensure that the level of core expenditure growth is sustainable long-term and that investment in expenditure protects and delivers improvements to public services. This framework must be responsive to the economic landscape and is reviewed annually as part of...