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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (11 Jul 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The Presidential Establishment (Amendment) Act, 1973 provides that the remuneration for the President will be equal to the remuneration of the Chief Justice increased by 10%. The salary for the President for the years 2012 – 2022 was €325,507. This was increased to €332,017 as of 1 March 2023 in line with the Review of Building Momentum. With regard to the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Websites (6 Jul 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: As the deputy is probably aware most Departments, including my own Department, now host their websites within the gov.ie domain. Since gov.ie went live on the 17thof January 2019 and in preceding years there have been no occasions where the SSL certificates associated with my department's websites have expired without renewal. My Department acts immediately when alerted to an upcoming expiry...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (6 Jul 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The Pensions Authority is categorised as a non-commercial State agency, and is listed on the Register of Public Sector Bodies. The Pensions Authority is not in direct receipt of Exchequer expenditure. As the Pensions Authority is under the aegis of the Department of Social Protection, the Department of Social Protection may be better placed to provide the Deputy with any further detailed...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (6 Jul 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The Office of Public Works is a Scheduled Office as defined under the Public Service Management Act 1997. The OPW is categorised by the Central Statistics Office as a Vote, and is listed on the Register of Public Sector Bodies. Exchequer allocations and associated staffing numbers for the Office in a given year are set out under Vote 13 as detailed in the Revised Estimates for Public Services...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Brexit Supports (5 Jul 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The European Union’s Brexit Adjustment Reserve (BAR) provides support to counter the adverse economic, social, territorial, and environmental consequences of the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union. Initially €5.47 billion was allocated to the reserve while Ireland’s initial allocation was €1.165 billion. Since the BAR regulation came into force in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Government Procurement (5 Jul 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The Framework Agreement for the provision of Travel Management and Ancillary Services has two members, Club Travel Limited and World Travel Centre Ltd. t/a Selective Travel Management.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (5 Jul 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The information requested by the Deputy in respect of the bodies under the aegis of my Department is set out in the tables below. Office of Public Works – Chairman Pay Scale* Year Received Benefits Loyalty Payments / Bonuses Civil Service Secretary General Level III pay scale 2023 Nil Nil ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Equipment (5 Jul 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I would like to thank the Deputy for her question and inform her that the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer, the division within my Department with responsibility for providing IT services to the Department, has confirmed that they have had no instances in the last ten years where they used unlicensed software and/or lapsed licenced software.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Broadcasting Sector (4 Jul 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: Since taking office as Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform on December 17 2022 I have not met with or corresponded with the Director General of RTÉ.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Broadcasting Sector (4 Jul 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: Since taking office as Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform on December 17 2022 I have not met with or corresponded with members of the board of RTÉ.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Broadcasting Sector (4 Jul 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform became aware of this issue and its details as they emerged from media reports from June 22 into the following week. The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, the Gaeltacht, Sport and Media has also been briefing her Government colleagues, including at the Government meeting of 27 June

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Broadcasting Sector (4 Jul 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: My predecessor as Minster for Public Expenditure and Reform, Michael McGrath TD, did not meet with or correspond with the Director General of RTÉ or the board members of RTÉ during the term of the previous Government. While no formal meetings occurred, I should note that Minister McGrath and the Director General of RTÉ at the time, Dee Forbes, both attended the Cork Person of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery (4 Jul 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I am informed by the Regulator of the National Lottery that the value of unclaimed prize amounts in each of the past six years is detailed as below: Unclaimed Prizes 2017€'000 2018€'000 2019€'000 2020€'000 2021€'000 2022€'000 Total€'000 Expired Prizes ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Sports Funding (4 Jul 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform does not operate any schemes for the provision of support and funding for sporting organisations of the type mentioned in the Deputy's question

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Bodies (4 Jul 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: On 27 June Government agreed to progress the establishment of the Senior Posts Remuneration Committee on a statutory basis, in line with the recommendations of the Report of the Independent Review Panel on senior public service recruitment and pay determination processes. This Committee, on its establishment, will advise on remuneration arrangements for senior posts in the public service and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (4 Jul 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The Health Service Executive is categorised as a non-commercial State Agency, and is listed on the Register of Public Sector Bodies. As the HSE is under the aegis of the Department of Health, the Department of Health may be better placed to provide the Deputy with any further detailed information in relation to the HSE.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (4 Jul 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: A register of Public Sector Bodies is published by the Central Statistics Office (CSO). This lists all organisations in the State which are considered to be in the general government sector for the purposes of preparing Government Finance Statistics (GFS) and Excessive Deficit Procedure (EDP) reporting for Ireland. It also lists organisations which, while under public control, are not part of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Consultations (29 Jun 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to advise the Deputy thatthe information requested formy Department (including the Office of Government Procurement) is set out in the table below. Company Purpose Cost of Contract to date in 2023 Byrne Wallace Provision of legal advice €29,215 Quadra Remote Working Risk Assessments ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (29 Jun 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: Public consultation for schemes submitted under European Union (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Arterial Drainage) Regulations 2019 are provided for under Section 7C of the Regulations. It is my intention to hold a public consultation on the River Bride (Blackpool) Flood Relief Scheme shortly, and Officials in my Department are working with independent environmental consultants to progress...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (29 Jun 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government’s approach 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...