145. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he can provide the full year cost of funding five additional procurement specialists to establish a new Public Procurement Ombudsman in 2026 within the general Office of the Ombudsman; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27964/25]
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146. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he can provide the cost savings to the State in the year 2026 from a reduction in the salary top up of politicians including an Taoiseach, an Tánaiste, Ministers and Ministers of State by 25%, 50% and 75%, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27965/25]
147. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the cost of hiring five forensic accountants for the Comptroller and Auditor General in 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27967/25]
148. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the total revenue resulting from charges on admission to monuments and heritage sites by the Office of Public Works in each of the past ten years. [27998/25]
149. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the annual expenditure on courses for employees of public bodies to learn Irish from an organisation (details supplied) or any other provider, every year from 2015 to 2025. [27999/25]
150. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform and Reform if he will report on the measures he is taking to provide flood relief and to guard against future threats in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28322/25]
151. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 45 of 21 May 2025, if, in his view, the consultancy report by a company (details supplied) into value for money of the bike shed represented value for money at a cost of €20,500 excluding VAT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28401/25]
219. Deputy Noel McCarthy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 306 of 8 May 2025, the breakdown of the €3.6 million expended to date on a scheme (details supplied), in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26998/25]
220. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to provide a list of all framework agreements currently in place under the remit of the Office of Government Procurement or associated central purchasing bodies (details supplied); and if that data is not held centrally, to indicate how such drawdown activity is tracked. [27012/25]
221. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if framework-based procurement is included in his Department’s reporting of “tendered” procurement in its annual accounts; if so, to distinguish between contracts awarded via framework mini-competition, contracts awarded via direct drawdown from a framework without competition and frameworks run independe…
222. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to provide a list of all framework agreements used by his Department or its agencies since 2022, by name and description of framework; if it was established by his Department, the OGP, or another central/sectoral body; if it is a single-supplier or multi-supplier framework; if drawdowns required mini-comp…
223. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if all drawdowns from frameworks by his Department or its agencies from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2024, valued over €25,000 were accompanied by publication of a contract award notice on the eTenders portal as required by Circular 05/2023; and if not, to list any known contracts where such publication …
224. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to provide, a breakdown equivalent to Table 2.6 of the OECD report "Procurement for Better Value - A Case Study of Ireland" for each year from 2019 to 2024, by each portfolio (details supplied); if data for earlier years is not available in this structure, to provide the most complete available equivalent…
225. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to list the top ten frameworks by spend under direct drawdown in 2023 and 2024, showing for each, the framework name, the total drawdown value; and the percentage of total direct-drawdown expenditure it represents. [27073/25]
226. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to provide details of any value-for-money reviews, savings validations or performance benchmarks completed on each portfolio in the past four years; the headline savings achieved; the key performance indicators used; and the steps taken where frameworks underperformed targets.; and if he will make a state…
227. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to indicate any planned additions, consolidations or retirements of framework categories over the next 12-18 months; and the rationale for each proposed change. [27075/25]
228. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to confirm the expected publication dates for the next Public Procurement Annual Report. [27076/25]
229. Deputy Noel McCarthy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if an area will be considered for inclusion in a flood relief scheme (details supplied), given the area's current vulnerability to structural collapse and flooding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27095/25]
230. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the amount of the infrastructure, climate and nature find that will be ringfenced for climate and nature specific initiatives; the criteria set out to define a measure as a ‘climate’ or ‘nature’ measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27128/25]
231. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform in general, the rules his Department has set regarding determining the date of promotion in the Civil Service; and are there any circumstances where the date of promotion could be considered to be a date prior to the signing of the contract by the successful candidate. [27154/25]
232. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform whether a public body that made an offer to a civil servant that was accepted under the terms of the civil service mobility scheme can then turn around and cancel that offer; if so, the circumstance permitting such a course of action and where are they published; the protections that exist for civil servan…
233. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform whether a public body that made an offer to a civil servant that was accepted under the terms of the civil service mobility scheme can then turn around and cancel that offer; if so, the circumstance permitting such a course of action and where are they published; the protections that exist for civil servan…
234. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to provide an update on a flood relief scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27180/25]
235. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the plans to reopen the last round tower in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27388/25]
236. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform when he expects an OPW site (details supplied) to be open to the public and if there will there be access to the tower itself; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27411/25]