Questions

780. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the number of public bodies that reported legal costs exceeding €50,000 in any of the past three years; the purpose of these legal services; whether any central oversight exists to ensure value for money in procurement of legal services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40849/25]

781. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation whether he has considered introducing guidelines or a centralised legal services framework to control escalating legal costs across the public service; if so, the timeline for implementation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40850/25]

782. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the oversight mechanisms in place to ensure that public bodies adhere to the public spending code when procuring legal services; how compliance is monitored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40851/25]

787. Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the specific metrics being used to evaluate the success of public service reform initiatives; to provide data available on the performance indicators; their targets; and the current status against these targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40942/25]

788. Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide statistics on the uptake of digital services by Irish citizens over the past three years; the types of services most frequently used; the demographic information on users; the observed changes in service delivery efficiency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40943/…

789. Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation what data is available on the cost-benefit analysis conducted for major infrastructure projects in Cork County, including the methodologies used, the projected versus actual economic benefits; what can be learned from these analysis for cost saving; and if he will make a statement on the m…

811. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the position regarding the Apple tax windfall; what has the money been used for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42320/25]

812. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the amount spent by his Department and State bodies under its aegis on travel and subsistence in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42470/25]

813. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if he will detail regarding Table 6 contained in ‘National Development Plan Review 2025’ if he will detail the gross voted capital allocation in € millions for the Office of Public of Works contained within the ‘Public, Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation’ g…

819. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the number of persons currently on a panel arising from the most recent assistant principal officer recruitment campaign across civil servants; the timeframe for this panel to expire; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42950/25]

821. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide an update on the four legacy actions due as outlined in the Q1 2025 progress report (details supplied); to outline which actions they are; the reason for the delay; the status of the progress to the timeline for completion, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. […

842. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if the revenue arising from the Court of Justice of the European Union, CJEU, judgment on the Apple case has been deployed in the review of the national development plan; to provide a breakdown of the individual allocations for that on a year-by-year basis; and if he will make a statement on the ma…

847. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation for a list of units in his Department and the budget, including staffing budget for each. [44324/25]

290. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation for an update on an urgent matter regarding sculptures (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35354/25]

90. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas Members within his Department, including all subsidiary bodies, in tabular form. [30925/25]

96. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation further to Parliamentary Question No. 666 of 29 April 2025, if there is any formal tabular measurement of the regional balance with respect to the Government’s NDP capital investment commitment of €165 billion 2021-30 or budget 2025 provision of almost €15 billion and €3 billion proceeds of the…

625. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform for a list of value-for-money reports commenced or completed by his Department in the past five years, including those undertaken by the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18789/25]

630. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the total number of vacant OPW-owned buildings in County Kildare on 1 April in the years 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19055/25]

633. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the details of all services, grants, loans and payments available to individuals or households funded by his Department and agencies under his remit; the eligibility requirements and any conditionality for receiving the service, grant, loan or payment (details supplied); and the monetary value, or…

650. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will provide a schedule of all capital projects being delivered or which have been completed by the OPW since 1 January 2020; the total project cost of projects in excess of €500,000 or of any other capital projects below this that have come to his Department's attention for reasons of overspend o…

655. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the flood relief works that are being funded by the OPW and currently under construction; and when will each of those flood relief projects be completed, in tabular form. [20148/25]

657. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the amount spent annually on fortnightly pension detail postage, in the public sector, from 2020 to 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20273/25]

662. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 202 of 9 April 2025, the number of applications received to join an Garda Síochána from January 2024 to date in 2025, by month, by the jurisdiction in which the applicant is based, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20413/25]

665. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to provide a list of the ten capital projects, completed or almost completed, within the past five years, with the most significant cost variances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20555/25]

666. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform with respect to the capital commitments voted upon in the recent budget, to provide a breakdown expenditure by nomenclature of territorial units 3 (NUTS3) region, in tabular form; and if he will detail the controls used to ensure that spending is fairly distributed across the country. [20556/25]