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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (2 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Public service pay has been governed by a system of collective agreements since the Croke Park Agreement was negotiated in 2010. These collective agreements have helped to ensure that public pay is managed in a sustainable, affordable and orderly manner. These agreements have also enabled significant reform of public services and changes to work practices. The value of public pay deals to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (2 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As indicated in my reply to Question No. 67 of 21 February 2024, the Government committed €165 billion towards capital investment through the National Development Plan (NDP) 2021-30 published in 2021. As set out in the Summer Economic Statement (SES) 2023, an additional €2.25 billion was made available to be allocated in the 2024 to 2026 period, to provide funding for critical...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Authorities (2 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: With the exception of the Local Government Fund and some small administrative lines of expenditure, the vast majority of local authority expenditure is not funded directly through the annual Budget process. The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage and his Department have responsibility at central Government level in relation to the local government system generally and for...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (2 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform I am responsible for setting the overall capital allocations across Departments and for monitoring monthly expenditure at Departmental level. The responsibility for the management and delivery of individual investment projects or sectoral policy strategies, within the allocations agreed under the National Development Plan (NDP),...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (2 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Since the onset of Brexit the Government has had to cater for unforeseen external events and make room for significant expenditure on these challenges within the overall government expenditure ceiling. As the Deputy knows, this was done through the use of what was termed non-core expenditure. Non-core expenditure has proved a useful approach to expenditure policy as it provided flexibility...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (2 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will know the Stability Programme Update is a legal requirement, a technical document for reporting back to the European Commission every year. It reports on the Government's out-turn for the previous year while setting out its forecast of the macro-economic position to the medium term. As part of this we also set out the expenditure ceilings for medium term on a no policy...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (2 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government has committed €165 billion towards capital investment through the National Development Plan (NDP) 2021-30 published in 2021. Following the conclusion of more than 30 bilateral meetings which took place from January to March with my Ministerial colleagues, on 27 March I was pleased to announce that I had reached agreement on the distribution of an additional €2.25...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (2 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government committed €165 billion towards capital investment through the National Development Plan (NDP) 2021-30 published in 2021. An additional €2.25 billion from the windfall tax receipts was made available to capital expenditure over the period 2024-26 in the Summer Economic Statement (SES) last year. This was to facilitate the progression of important projects and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Budgets (2 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: At the core of our fiscal policy is the Medium-Term Expenditure Strategy (MTES). The Strategy 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 budgetary process, particularly in the Summer Economic Statement, and prior to the Budget. Of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Policies (2 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024 proposes to establish the Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund. It is intended that the Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund will support the economy in times of exceptional need and will be available to support Ireland’s transition to a low carbon economy. The Fund will support expenditure by the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Economic Policy (2 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department continues to lead on Equality Budgeting. Equality Budgeting examines public expenditure designed to address inequalities, with the aim of increasing the level of transparency and accountability about how resources are being used to advance equality, reduce poverty and strengthening economic and social outcomes across all sectors of society. It is anchored in the existing...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Project Ireland 2040 (2 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government has committed to €165 billion in capital investment through the National Development Plan (NDP) published in 2021. As set out in the Summer Economic Statement (SES) 2023, an additional €2.25 billion of capital funding was made available to be allocated in the 2024 to 2026 period. This funding will facilitate the progression of important projects and enable more...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Project Ireland 2040 (2 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government has committed to €165 billion in capital investment through the National Development Plan (NDP) published in 2021. As set out in the Summer Economic Statement (SES) 2023, an additional €2.25 billion of capital funding was made available to be allocated in the 2024 to 2026 period. This funding will facilitate the progression of important projects and enable more...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Policies (2 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, I am responsible for setting the overall capital allocations across Departments and for monitoring monthly expenditure at Departmental level. The responsibility for the management and delivery of individual investment projects, within the allocations agreed under the National Development Plan (NDP), rests with the individual...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Policies (2 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 143, 144 and 148 together. My Department continues to review budgetary process and expenditure monitoring to ensure we are adequately tracking developments and utilising best practice methods to assess the impact of public expenditure investment. These processes complement the monitoring of drawdown of funds from the Exchequer reported each month against...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Policies (2 May 2024)

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...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Industry (2 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, I am responsible for setting the overall capital allocations across Departments and for monitoring monthly expenditure at Departmental level. The responsibility for the management and delivery of individual investment projects or sectoral policy strategies, within the allocations agreed under the National Development Plan (NDP),...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Policies (2 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Maximising delivery of NDP projects is a key priority for Government. In 2023, I announced a package of actions to enhance delivery of vital public projects. These actions included significant changes to reduce the administrative burden in delivering major capital projects. The Public Spending Code has been replaced by a set of Infrastructure Guidelines which reduce the number of decision...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (2 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Public service pay has been governed by a system of collective agreements since the Croke Park Agreement was negotiated in 2010. These collective agreements have helped to ensure that public pay is managed in a sustainable, affordable and orderly manner. These agreements have also enabled significant reform of public services and changes to work practices. The value of public pay deals to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures (1 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy should be made aware that my office received this correspondence on 18 April. A reply to this person has been issued. More generally, as the Deputy is aware, legislation to protect workers who raise concerns about wrongdoing in the workplace has been in place in Ireland for some time and this year will mark ten years since the Protected Disclosures Act was enacted in 2014....