Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Ethics in Public Office

Rose Conway-Walsh

76. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to provide an update on planned reforms to strengthen standards in public office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19844/24]

Capital Expenditure Programme

Rose Conway-Walsh

89. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to provide detail on the non-core spending allocation of approximately €4.5 billion for each year from 2025 to 2027 outlined in the stability programme update; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19840/24]

Capital Expenditure Programme

Rose Conway-Walsh

134. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to outline the procedure and engagements with individual Departments to determine the share of capital increase that was allocated from the €2.25 billion over the next five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20038/24]

Departmental Budgets

Rose Conway-Walsh

135. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to outline how his Department monitors budget deficits in individual Departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20039/24]

Departmental Policies

Rose Conway-Walsh

136. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the role, if any, he will have in relation to the ICN Fund, making particular reference to the report requirements on designated environmental projects and proposed payments from the fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20040/24]

Disability Services

Rose Conway-Walsh

230. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the pathway for a person (details supplied) to access independent living supports where a need for such supports has been established, but funding is not being made available from the HSE to facilitate supported living packages of care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19929/24]

Cabinet Committees

Rose Conway-Walsh

22. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will meet next. [19529/24]

Public Expenditure Policy

Rose Conway-Walsh

131. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the total projected Exchequer capital spend for 2024, 2025, 2026 and 2027; what the Exchequer expenditure represents as a percentage share of GNI* based on the updated projections in the stability programme update; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19900/24]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Rose Conway-Walsh

236. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average fees being paid by parents (exclusive of State-provided ECCE funding) prior to reductions and savings from the national childcare subsidy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19901/24]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Rose Conway-Walsh

237. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the cost to the Exchequer of a 1 cent increase in the national childcare subsidy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19902/24]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Rose Conway-Walsh

238. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of a 1 cent increase in wages in the childcare sector if the State were to directly subsidise the increase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19903/24]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Rose Conway-Walsh

239. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide the total capacity of the childcare sector for each age cohort; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19904/24]

Public Private Partnerships

Rose Conway-Walsh

488. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Justice what percentage of her Department's capital budget is used to cover the cost of unitary PPP payments each year since 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18941/24]

Public Private Partnerships

Rose Conway-Walsh

489. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Justice if the level of expenditure by her Department on unitary PPP payments are in line with the investment policy framework for PPPs, which restricted annual expenditure on PPP unitary payments to no more than 10% of aggregate capital expenditure, in any given year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18942/24]

Agriculture Industry

Rose Conway-Walsh

60. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applicants to the succession planning advice grant; the steps he is taking to support succession; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18423/24]

Beef Sector

Rose Conway-Walsh

106. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the recent changes to the beef indexes that have impacted farmers in the suckler carbon efficiency programme; how these changes were implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18424/24]

National Development Plan

Rose Conway-Walsh

44. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the capital underspend based on the targets set in the 2021 review of the national development plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17724/24]

Public Private Partnerships

Rose Conway-Walsh

46. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the types of services that typically make up the costs, other than construction and financing, in public private partnership contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17725/24]

Public Spending Code

Rose Conway-Walsh

57. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform when the infrastructure guidelines will lead to reform within individual Departments in the context of capital projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17727/24]

Capital Expenditure Programme

Rose Conway-Walsh

58. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the projected expenditure on capital projects for 2025 and 2026 in terms of GNI*; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17726/24]

State Properties

Rose Conway-Walsh

73. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if there is a plan or strategy in place for the Office of Public Works to reduce the reliance on leased properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17730/24]

Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General

Rose Conway-Walsh

80. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he has engaged with the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the potential of extending his remit to cover commercial public bodies in a dual-audit capacity in order to ensure greater oversight and accountability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17729/24]

Flood Risk Management

Rose Conway-Walsh

91. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the impact construction inflation has had on the cost of delivering flood protection projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17728/24]

State Claims Agency

Rose Conway-Walsh

210. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide the claims on, and settlements made by, the State Claims Agency in each year since 2011, broken down by category; the amount and percentage of total cost of settlements spent on legal fees, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17748/24]

Departmental Funding

Rose Conway-Walsh

176. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the total amount in the community recognition fund; the amount allocated to County Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17010/24]

Cabinet Committees

Rose Conway-Walsh

21. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy and investment will next meet. [16761/24]

Schools Building Projects

Rose Conway-Walsh

91. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education to provide an update on all education capital projects in development in Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16348/24]

Schools Building Projects

Rose Conway-Walsh

100. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education to provide an update on the badly needed extension for a school (details supplied) that is stuck on pre-stage 1 and has not progressed to planning; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16347/24]

Departmental Budgets

Rose Conway-Walsh

246. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to provide the capital allocation ceiling for the Office of Public Works for 2024, 2025 and 2026; the capital ceilings or projects for the annual priority reserve for 2024, 2025, and 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16229/24]

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Rose Conway-Walsh

259. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline the level of reduction reached to date, as the Government must reduce emissions from the heating of commercial buildings by 20% by 2025 and 45% by 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16259/24]

Housing Provision

Rose Conway-Walsh

389. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of vacant social houses in Mayo; how many specifically in Castlebar and Ballina; the average turnaround time for a social house once it is vacant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16104/24]

Pensions Reform

Rose Conway-Walsh

456. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Social Protection the projected annual cost to the Exchequer of the planned auto-enrolment pension scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16009/24]

Departmental Data

Rose Conway-Walsh

574. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the annual cost to the Exchequer of the means-tested national childcare scheme; the numbers accessing the scheme and the average subsidy per recipient each year since 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16038/24]

Departmental Data

Rose Conway-Walsh

575. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the corresponding saving to the Exchequer through the means-tested national childcare subsidy for every 1% decrease in the average fees using the universal national childcare scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16039/24]

Childcare Services

Rose Conway-Walsh

578. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm that in September 2024 his Department plans to introduce a further 25% reduction in average childcare fees, and that this will result in a 43.75% reduction of fees on 2022 levels, on average; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16109/24]

Apprenticeship Programmes

Rose Conway-Walsh

755. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the total number of new registrations for apprenticeships, broken down by consortia and craft; the total number of consortia and craft apprentices currently registered; the number of apprentices currently waiting to access off-site training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16159/24]

European Investment Bank

Rose Conway-Walsh

283. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Finance the total loans drawn down by Ireland from the European Investment Bank in each of the past ten years in tabular form; to specify the purpose and amount of each loan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13839/24]

Capital Expenditure Programme

Rose Conway-Walsh

301. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Finance to outline the multiplier applied to public expenditure, particularly capital expenditure, by his Department to estimate economic growth in both GDP and GNI* terms when preparing economic projections, and use an example of how the multiplier is applied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14705/24]

Economic Growth

Rose Conway-Walsh

302. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Finance to outline how the Department converts projected economic growth and government expenditure into numbers of people projected to be in employment when preparing economic projections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14706/24]

Economic Growth

Rose Conway-Walsh

303. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Finance to outline how his Department converts projected economic growth and government expenditure into projected tax revenue when preparing economic projections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14707/24]

Departmental Expenditure

Rose Conway-Walsh

336. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if the payment request made by Ireland regarding the Recovery and Resilience Fund is still active, or whether it was cancelled following the submission of a modified plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13840/24]

Departmental Expenditure

Rose Conway-Walsh

349. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 307 of 20 March 2024, if the investment projects and programmes tracker is not regularly updated; when the tracker will next be updated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14368/24]

Exchequer Payments

Rose Conway-Walsh

350. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 309 of 20 March 2024, if the anticipated total cost to the Exchequer listed include projections of increases due to indexation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14371/24]

Capital Expenditure Programme

Rose Conway-Walsh

360. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to provide new capital ceilings for each Department for 2024, 2025 and 2026 accounting for the allocation of the €2.25 billion in windfall capital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14954/24]

Capital Expenditure Programme

Rose Conway-Walsh

361. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform when he will publish updated departmental capital ceilings for each Department for the second half of the national development plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14955/24]

Capital Expenditure Programme

Rose Conway-Walsh

362. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to provide details of the amount of the €2.25 billion windfall capital that will be used for new projects and the amount that will be earmarked to address construction inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14956/24]

Energy Policy

Rose Conway-Walsh

379. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the targets for commercial building emission reductions and energy targets; the steps being taken to achieve this target; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14260/24]

Schools Building Projects

Rose Conway-Walsh

445. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education to outline what progress has been made for the relocation of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14132/24]

Public Private Partnerships

Rose Conway-Walsh

647. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 708 and 709 of 20 March, the percentage of the unitary payment for social housing PPP bundles 1 and 2 that is indexed or understood to be allocated towards operational costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14369/24]

Public Private Partnerships

Rose Conway-Walsh

648. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when information on the anticipated total cost to the Exchequer of PPP bundles 3 to 7 will be made public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14370/24]