Richard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent)
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78. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total financial amount on both a daily and yearly basis, of EU fines being paid by his Department in 2022; if he will provide the corresponding figures for 2020 and 2021, including the specifics of each case in his Department. [56781/22]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has not incurred any EU fines for failure to transpose EU Directives since the Department was established in 2011. The Department has received a notification of infringement from the Commission related to the transposition of Directive (EU) 2019/1937 on the protection of persons who report breaches of EU law. At the time the notification was received, the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill, which would give effect to the transposition, had been published and was before the Houses of the Oireachtas.

Since the receipt of this notification, the Bill has completed passage through the Oireachtas and was signed into law – as the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Act 2022 – by the President on 21 July 2022. Following enactment, the Department has formally communicated the passage of the transposing legislation to the Commission. The new legislation will commence in full on 1 January 2023.