Written answers

Thursday, 5 March 2020

Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Departmental Data

Photo of Michael FitzmauriceMichael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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477. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of supplier invoices and the value of each which were processed for payment by each Department and State body in each of the years 2013 to 2019. [3841/20]

Photo of Heather HumphreysHeather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The European Communities (Late Payment in Commercial Transactions) Regulations 2012 - SI 580 of 2012 gives legal effect to Directive 2011/7/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 on combating late payment in commercial transactions. 

The 2012 Regulations provide that public authorities must pay for goods and services they procure within 30 days of receipt of a valid invoice or as specified in a contract (which cannot exceed 30 days). Failure to do so incurs the automatic payment of interest and compensation.

To promote compliance with the legislation, Government Departments and relevant public sector bodies are required to publish on their respective websites, their quarterly payment performance reports. Individual Government Departments are also required to publish the quarterly composite reports covering the bodies under their aegis.

Since 2013, my Department has been collating and publishing the composite quarterly returns by Central Government Departments of payments made to their suppliers.  This information which has been supplied by each Department relates to payments made to suppliers within 15 days and within 30 days. 

The figures included in the table below have been calculated based on the values provided to my Department by Government Departments as part of the 15-day prompt payment requirements.

Table 1 provides the value of payments which were processed by each Department from 2013 to 2019.  It also includes the value of payments processed by the bodies under the aegis of my Department in the period from 2013 to 2019. It should be noted that there have been changes in Department configurations over this period.

Table 2 provides the numbers of payments that were processed by each Department from 2013 to 2019. It also includes the number of invoices processed by the bodies under the aegis of my Department in the period from 2013 – 2019.

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
€000 €000 €000 €000 €000 €000 €000
Agriculture, Food and the Marine (previously Agriculture, Fisheries and Food) 104,055 115,480 134,183 168,223 154,878 205,075 220,501
Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs 41,844 36,859 40,059 11,460 62,192
Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs 47,402
Business, Enterprise & Innovation (previously Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation) 78,923 28,059 40,707 42,217 25,462 14,444 14,543
Children & Youth Affairs 82,820 31,386 10,622 12,236 13,509 9,755 9,151
Communications, Climate Action and Environment 25,483 26,697
Communications, Energy and Natural Resources 15,707 30,879 60,241 3,241
Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources 20,192 34,753
Culture, Heritage & the Gaeltacht 57,309 66,340
Defence 130,630 162,394 184,735 194,163 191,259 209,562 234,999
Education & Skills 326,028 372,601 381,249 388,845 350,248 362,005 510,093
Environment, Community and Local Government 16,081 16,260 17,493 1,551
Employment Affairs & Social Protection 346,116 343,329 277,475 298,381 315,419 377,596 344,635
Finance 10,453 7,991 9,318 7,181 8,988 5,786 4,920
Foreign Affairs & Trade 29,627 28,630 32,035 38,019 34,959 40,467 44,478
Health 5,433 4,668 4,823 5,713 7,663 10,641 20,138
Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government 8,099 12,592 31,047 34,063
Justice & Equality 117,224 135,659 143,200 149,596 160,457 178,969 240,823
Public Expenditure & Reform 6,026 7,638 11,438 14,020 20,118 20,859 22,849
Rural & Community Development 31,821 30,734
Taoiseach 7,417 7,161 8,303 7,433 7,870 29,993 8,067
Transport, Tourism & Sport 1,795,094 1,807,581 1,722,723 1,854,372 1,849,599 2,098,980 2,369,197
Bodies under the aegis of DBEI
Enterprise Ireland 31,724 31,877 39,736 32,527 32,797 36,103 38,074
Forfas 7,510 971
Health & Safety Authority 6,600 6,418 7,328 7,013 7,583 6,593 7,550
Industrial Development Agency 34,569 67,645 48,900 53,201 64,607 68,377 108,134
Irish Auditing & Accounting Supervisory Authority 994 906 699 812 989 1,279 1,052
Labour Relations Commission 544 462 272
National Consumer Authority 5,160 2,405
National Standards Authority of Ireland 7,145 7,229 11,241 10,519 8,879 10,281 9,965
Personal Injuries Assessment Board 14,003 15,589 16,358 17,285 19,001 16,871 16,523
Science Foundation Ireland 4,041 4,464 4,525 6,296 6,573 6,105 14,479
Shannon Development 21,771 7,061
The Competition & Consumer Protection Commission 858 4,148 3,404 4,090 3,997 5,182
The Competition Authority 601 676
The Equality tribunal 84 32
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Number of payments Number of payments Number of payments Number of payments Number of payments Number of payments Number of payments
Agriculture, Food and the Marine (previously Agriculture, Fisheries and Food) 24,842 23,648 25,405 25,620 27,328 26,961 25,870
Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs 14,003 13,869 13,143
Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs 12,240 9,203
Business, Enterprise & Innovation (previously Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation) 6,889 6,167 6,976 6,904 7,038 7,245 7,336
Children & Youth Affairs 2,016 1,322 1,687 1,874 2,049 1,942 1,628
Communications, Climate Action and Environment 5,697 5681
Communications, Energy and Natural Resources 3,981 4,359 9,658
Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources 3,635 5,469
Culture, Heritage & the Gaeltacht 12,799 15,845
Defence 36,962 36,496 37,197 36,762 34,050 34,650 32,817
Education & Skills 14,052 11,874 12,799 11,738 11,145 12,090 13,613
Environment, Community and Local Government 6,274 4,883 4,405
Employment Affairs & Social Protection 19,581 16,587 15,954 15.438 14,733 13,279 12,270
Finance 4,373 2,968 2,921 2,889 3,004 3,129 3,035
Foreign Affairs & Trade 7,337 6,039 6,370 6,504 7,196 7,644 8,738
Health 2,487 2,191 2,513 2,664 3,071 3,532 3,427
Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government 3,082 4,049 4,722 5,373
Justice & Equality 29,126 32.653 31,763 35,630 41,333 46,362 49,537
Public Expenditure & Reform 2,238 2,303 2,527 2,533 2,985 3,470 3,509
Rural & Community Development 4,357 2,191
Taoiseach 1,775 1,626 2,206 2,612 3,418 2,911 2,164
Transport, Tourism & Sport 20,563 19,268 13,210 12,195 12,518 12,331 15,192
Bodies under the aegis of DBEI
Enterprise Ireland 13,133 11,477 11,252 11673 12,468 13,587 15,461
Forfas 1,574 605
Health & Safety Authority 2,607 2,834 3,469 3,376 3,390 3,371 3,786
Industrial Development Agency 6,416 6,598 7,167 7,267 5,647 6,135 6,921
Irish Auditing & Accounting Supervisory Authority 288 293 386 483 423 435 455
Labour Relations Commission 1,060 1,162 859
National Consumer Authority 1,186 957
National Standards Authority of Ireland 2,740 2,705 3,048 3,051 3,003 3,575 3,801
Personal Injuries Assessment Board 20,952 23,321 23,773 26,055 25,887 23,719 24,451
Science Foundation Ireland 1,136 1,073 1,146 1,599 1,560 1,198 1,399
Shannon Development 11,576 5,071
The Competition & Consumer Protection Commission 261 1,775 1,940 1,519 1,388 1,541
The Competition Authority 439 374
The Equality tribunal 151 78

Photo of Michael FitzmauriceMichael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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478. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of supplier invoices which were processed by each Department and State body in each of the years 2013 to 2019 which received interest payments under the prompt payment of accounts legislation. [3842/20]

Photo of Michael FitzmauriceMichael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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480. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of supplier invoices which received both interest payments and compensation payments under the prompt payment of accounts legislation and which were processed by each Department and State body in each of the years 2013 to 2019. [3844/20]

Photo of Heather HumphreysHeather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 478 and 480 together.

The European Communities (Late Payment in in Commercial Transactions) Regulations 2012 - S.I. No. 580 of 2012 gives legal effect to Directive 2011/7/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 on combating late payment in commercial transactions. 

Under these Regulations it is an implied term of every commercial transaction that where a purchaser does not pay for goods or services by the relevant payment date, the supplier shall be entitled to late payment interest on the amount outstanding.

The 2012 Regulations provide that public authorities must pay for goods and services they procure within 30 days of receipt of a valid invoice or as specified in a contract (which cannot exceed 30 days). Failure to do so incurs the automatic payment of interest and compensation.

To promote compliance with the legislation, Government Departments and relevant public sector bodies are required to publish on their respective websites, their quarterly payment performance reports. Individual Government Departments are also required to publish the quarterly composite reports covering the bodies under their aegis.

Since 2013, my Department has been collating and publishing the composite quarterly returns by Central Government Departments of payments made to their suppliers.  This information which is supplied by each Department relates to payments made to suppliers within 15 days and within 30 days.  My Department has since April 2017 collected data on the number of payments incurring late payments interest and compensation.

The table below provides the number of supplier invoices which incurred late payment interest and compensation payments which were processed by each Department since April 2017.  It also includes the number of supplier invoices incurring late payment interest and compensation payment processed by the bodies under the aegis of my Department in the period from April 2017 to December 2019. 

2017 2018 2019
Number of invoices Number of invoices Number of invoices
Agriculture, Food and the Marine 61 147 127
Business, Enterprise & Innovation 153 131 56
Children & Youth Affairs 17 41 44
Communications, Climate Action and Environment 104 156 153
Culture, Heritage & the Gaeltacht 29 67 55
Defence 72 139 87
Education & Skills 56 61 83
Employment Affairs & Social Protection 57 72 41
Finance 5 20 4
Foreign Affairs & Trade 14 82 143
Health 50 50 48
Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government 43 41 54
Justice & Equality 27 83 94
Public Expenditure & Reform 11 39 29
Rural & Community Development 0 33 12
Taoiseach 6 21 12
Transport, Tourism & Sport 0 0 5
Bodies under the aegis of DBEI
Enterprise Ireland 2 1 2
Health & Safety Authority 0 0 0
Industrial Development Agency 5 123 302
Irish Auditing & Accounting Supervisory Authority 0 0 1
National Standards Authority of Ireland 0 0 0
Personal Injuries Assessment Board 96 38 46
Science Foundation Ireland 0 0 0
The Competition & Consumer Protection Commission 0 3 11

Photo of Michael FitzmauriceMichael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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479. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the value of interest payments for supplier invoices which received interest payments under the prompt payment of accounts legislation and which were processed by each Department and State body in each of the years 2013 to 2019. [3843/20]

Photo of Michael FitzmauriceMichael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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481. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the value of interest payments and compensation payments for supplier invoices which received interest payments under the prompt payment of accounts legislation and which were processed by each Department and State body in each of the years 2013 to 2019. [3845/20]

Photo of Heather HumphreysHeather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 479 and 481 together.

The European Communities (Late Payment in Commercial Transactions) Regulations 2012 - S.I. No. 580 of 2012 gives legal effect to Directive 2011/7/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 on combating late payment in commercial transactions. 

Under these Regulations it is an implied term of every commercial transaction that where a purchaser does not pay for goods or services by the relevant payment date, the supplier shall be entitled to late payment interest on the amount outstanding.

The 2012 Regulations provide that public authorities must pay for goods and services they procure within 30 days of receipt of a valid invoice or as specified in a contract (which cannot exceed 30 days). Failure to do so incurs the automatic payment of interest and compensation.

To promote compliance with the legislation, Government Departments and relevant public sector bodies are required to publish on their respective websites, their quarterly payment performance reports. Individual Government Departments are also required to publish the quarterly composite reports covering the bodies under their aegis.

Since 2013, my Department has been collating and publishing the composite quarter returns by Central Government Departments of payments made to their suppliers.  This information which has been supplied by each Department relates to payments made to suppliers within 15 days and within 30 days.  My Department has since April 2017 collected data on the number of payments incurring late payments interest and compensation.

This table provides the value of late payments interest and compensation paid by each Department since April 2017.  It also includes the value of late payments interest and compensation paid by the bodies under the aegis of this Department in the period from April 2017 to December 2019.

2017 2017 2018 2018 2019 2019
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Agriculture, Food and the Marine 1,274 3,090 932 7,100 4,258 6,610
Business, Enterprise & Innovation 1,631 5,558 315 2,379 908 2,808
Children & Youth Affairs 351 500 708 2,240 1,005 2,330
Communications, Climate Action and Environment 2,088 4,030 1,793 7,320 3,316 6,310
Culture, Heritage & the Gaeltacht 165 1,580 1,415 3,130 324 2,530
Defence 806 3,510 1,101 6,400 1,477 4,260
Education & Skills 327 2,750 2,375 2,639 3,002 4,550
Employment Affairs & Social Protection 4,481 1,850 724 2,300 804 3,010
Finance 23 300 70 1,380 6 160
Foreign Affairs & Trade 184 770 2,174 3,720 3,727 7,450
Health 604 2,870 1,353 3,110 361 2,190
Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government 567 2,380 1,240 2,240 943 2,280
Justice & Equality 253 1,260 1,085 3,920 1,030 4,870
Public Expenditure & Reform 126 760 179 1,860 309 2,078
Rural & Community Development 0 0 226 1,660 19 480
Taoiseach 368 300 80 900 272 780
Transport, Tourism & Sport 0 0 0 0 1 200
Bodies under the aegis of DBEI
Enterprise Ireland 2 80 0 0 0 0
Health & Safety Authority 0 0 0 0 0 0
Industrial Development Agency 3 200 1,542 6,600 5,740 17,348
Irish Auditing & Accounting Supervisory Authority 0 0 0 0 358 0
National Standards Authority of Ireland 0 0 0 0 0 0
Personal Injuries Assessment Board 1,100 3,500 1,159 1,270 210 1,180
Science Foundation Ireland 0 0 0 0 0 0
The Competition & Consumer Protection Commission 0 0 0 0 20 560

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