Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
FOI Requests — 2,436 records (page 2 of 49)
- Received —Decided 8 March 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
Access to correspondence / minutes of meetings between Minister Donohoe and Bartra Capital since the start of 2016. Please include all records outlined in the following lobbying return https://www.lobbying.ie/return/12864/bartra-capital-property- management-limited-trading-as-bartra-capital-property.
- Received —Decided 8 March 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
1. A complete list of the entities which submitted proposals in response to RFT 103354 - THR023C - Request for Tenders for the Provision of Management & Supervisory Development Training for Sergeants and Inspectors of An Garda Síochána. 2. A full copy of the winning tender proposal submitted in response to RFT 103354 - THR023C - Request for Tenders for the Provision of Management & Supervisory Development Training for Sergeants and Inspectors of An Garda Síochána. 3. A full copy of the second highest scoring tender proposal submitted and short-listed in response to RFT 103354 - THR023C - Request for Tenders for the Provision of Management & Supervisory Development Training for Sergeants and Inspectors of An Garda Síochána.
- Received —Decided 7 March 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
RFT 109404 - THR029F - Single Supplier Framework Contract for the provision of Training for Line Managers across the Civil Service.
- Received —Decided 6 March 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
Documents related to the gender pay gap, promoting gender equality, changes to employment laws with a specific focus on gender equality. Timeframe involved is January 1st 2015 to present
- Received —Decided 3 March 2017GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
Employee Numbers at 1st January of each year. The annual Departmental employee numbers to reflect staff directly employed and active (full-time or part-time) in the Department during the relevant years (not persons on career breaks in excess of one year or staff working in organisations under the aegis of your Department). As it is recognised that there may be difficulty in identification of precise numbers a margin of error of (+/-) 5% is acceptable. Any formal Policy Document (and revisions of same if applicable) on the provision of customised, specialised or medically-requested office seating or chairs (generally termed as ‘ergonomic’, ‘orthopaedic’ or ‘spinal’ chairs – for brevity these will be identified below as ‘ergonomic chairs’) for the use of individual members of staff to suit their particular physical seating requirements. If no formal Policy Document has been produced, please provide a description of how such applications or requests for ‘ergonomic’ chairs are evaluated in the Department of Public Expenditure & Reform. Any or all related Procedures documents for the period 2011-2016 indicating how applications and/or requests for ‘ergonomic’ chairs are implemented in the Department of Public Expenditure & Reform. The F.O.I. response to include relevant records for the period (numbers of applications and requests per individual year, numbers of ‘ergonomic’ chairs provided per year and individual unit costs i.e. individual chair costs).
- Received —Decided 3 March 2017RefusedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
Copies of any records held by your Department relating to the setting of a salary level for Tony Williams and Donal Geoghegan, the special advisers to the Independent Alliance. Copies of any representations/letters received relating to the above.
- Received —Decided 1 March 2017RefusedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
Records relating to the details surrounding three high value severance payment agreements in the Higher Education sector between 2011 and 2013 that were raised in the Comptroller and Auditor Generals Report on Management of Serverance Payments in Public Bodies
- Received —Decided 22 February 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
copies of all records - to include emails, memos, letters, faxes, group text messages, and so on - relating to the process whereby new arrangements for salaried allowances were introduced. For avoidance of doubt, this refers to the process described in this newspaper article: http://www.independent.ie/irish- news/politics/government-signs-off-on-22m-salary-topups-for-tds- and-senators-35396126.html
- Received —Decided 22 February 2017GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
Listofexternallegalpractitionersforservicescarriedoutonbehalf of the department during 2015 & 2016
- Received —Decided 21 February 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
I would like copies of all correspondence relating to discussions within the department relating to pay restoration for higher paid civil servants. I would like copies of all reports prepared for the minister on pay restoration for senior civil servants. I would also like copies of all correspondence and notes/minutes of meetings with representative bodies/associations representing higher paid civil servants. I would like specific correspondence between the minister and department’s secretary general on pay restoration for senior civil servants. The timeline for the above mentioned documents should be from January 1, 2015 to January 18, 2017.
- Received —Decided 20 February 2017GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
Copies of all correspondence – email and electronic – between your Department and the Fiscal Advisory Council in the period 1 August 2016 to the current date.
- Received —Decided 16 February 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
All correspondence in relation to the temporary relocation of the Seanad from May 2016 - January 2017 from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform including reports received from the Office of Public Works
- Received —Decided 15 February 2017GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
I would like to request copies of all records, created since January 1st, 2016, relating to any proposed increase in the pay scale/remuneration of any employees of the National Gallery of Ireland earning over €80,000 pa.
- Received —Decided 15 February 2017GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
I would like copies of all credit card receipts submitted to the Department by secretary general Robert Watt over the past five years I would also like all expense claims submitted by Mr Watt over the same period
- Received —Decided 15 February 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
1. The number of people employed in the Public Service or those elected to the Oireachtas who have had abatement applied to their pensions. 2. The number of requests for a waver of the abatement that have been made to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform or the Minister of that Department since the abatement rule was introduced. 3. The number of wavers granted by the Minister or the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. 4. Details of all persons (names may be redacted if necessary) who have been re-employed in the public service following retirement who have been exempted from the abatement rules and the rationale for this exemption.
- Received —Decided 14 February 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
Records of all submissions by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to the Government’s Strategy for the Rental Sector.
- Received —Decided 13 February 2017GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
- Received —Decided 7 February 2017GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
*Records of all representations, communications and lobbying to the Department of Public Expenditure and its ministers on the Government’s Strategy for the Rental Sector. This would include letters, emails, records and minutes of meetings and phone calls, etc.
- Received —Decided 6 February 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
The Minutes of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission for its meeting held on 8 July 2009, Item 4 Rationalisation of members Allowances-Update, refer to a Government requirement for consultation with the C&AG and the Revenue Commissioners in connection with the proposed introduction of a new expenses regime for politicians. Copies of the correspondence on this matter between the Department of Finance and Revenue, with the Controller and Auditor General, and with the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission.
- Received —Decided 2 February 2017RefusedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
Any reports carried out for the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform by external consultants on the issue of Brexit
- Received —Decided 31 January 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
Allcorrespondencesentandreceivedbetweenanyofficialfromthe Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Labour Court in October/November 2016 in relation to the industrial dispute (threatened strike action) involving members of the GRA and the AGSI in 2016. All briefing documentation, advice, memos to the Minister about the implications of the Labour Court recommendation on pay increases for members of An Garda Siochana issued in November 2016. All briefing documentation, advice, and memos to the Minister on the public sector pay demands, and industrial relations threats in 2017.
- Received —Decided 19 January 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
- Received —Decided 17 January 2017RefusedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
Copies all internal audits carried out by agencies or bodies under the aegis of the Department, of which a copy has been forwarded to the Department/Minister for consideration, in the same period.
- Received —Decided 16 January 2017GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
Copies of all internal audits carried out by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of Finance between 1st June 2016 to date.
- Received —Decided 30 December 2016RefusedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
The NewEra (New Economy and Recovery Authority) report prepared for the Government on funding options for Irish Water, as referenced on page 17, paragraph 2.4.28 of the Report on the Funding of Domestic Public Water Services in Ireland. The NewEra report is examining matters such as the financial cost of external borrowing versus the provision of funds from central government sources.
- Received —Decided 29 December 2016Part-GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
copies of any records and documents in the Department concerning the application for and granting to Minister of State John Halligan with responsibility for Training Skills and Innovation, of approval for the hiring of a Special Adviser; such as records to include any submissions or presentations outlining or detailing the reasons for seeking and being granted such approval.
- Received —Decided 29 December 2016Part-GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
copies of any records and documents in the Department concerning the application for and granting to Minister of State for Public Works Sean Canney of approval for the hiring of a Special Adviser; such records to include any submissions or preseentations outlining or detailing the reasons for seeking and being granted such approval.
- Received —Decided 23 December 2016RefusedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
I make application under FOI act for copy the final deal maker letter signoff By minister for finance 1997. I hope you can help with this request under law with the final signoff doc similar to you and Leo Varadker this week 47 2016
- Received —Decided 21 December 2016Part-GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
The pre-budget submissions made by each government department for the consideration of the Minister and Department of Public Expenditure and Reform as part of the budgetary process. This should include but not be limited to copies of full submissions, emails and letters between ministers on various schemes or proposed plans, and memos of meetings where applicable.
- Received —Decided 20 December 2016GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
Details of all the gifts received and given by the minister and/or his office in the 12 months up to the date of this letter. The details should list: (1) the type of gift and its value; (2) who gave it/to whom it was given; (3) when and where the gift was given/received and the reason for the presentation. Records of any correspondence to and from the Minister’s office in relation to the sourcing and/or purchase of items to be used as gifts to be handed out by the minister on trips abroad or upon welcoming people to Ireland. Correspondence to/from the Minister’s office about receiving/giving gifts.
- Received —Decided 20 December 2016RefusedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
A breakdown of the legal fees incurred, and compensation paid (where applicable), for civil cases taken against your department from January 1st, 2016 to the present.
- Received —Decided 15 December 2016Part-GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
How many Clerical Officers and Staff Officers subscribe (are members of) the Civil and Public Services Union (CPSU) by grade and gender.
- Received —Decided 14 December 2016RefusedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
Multi - Supplier Framework Agreement to Provide Multi – Language. Interpretation Services (excluding the Irish language) Four companies submitted tenders for this Multi-Supplier Framework Agreement and three were successful. I am requesting access to the four tenders.
- Received —Decided 12 December 2016GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
A copy of the letter sent by IMPACT general secretary Shay Cody to DPER secretary general Robert Watt on April 5 2016 seeking funding of the service via the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Goverment instead of via the current service level agreement with the HSE. A copy of any correspondence sent back to Shay Cody by the department in response to his letter.
- Received —Decided 5 December 2016Part-GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
Minutes of all committee meetings of the Government Contracts Committee (GCC) and the Government Construction Contracts Committee. I would like these minutes from January 2011, if applicable, until the present day.
- Received —Decided 2 December 2016Part-GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
1. All briefing material available to the John Burke or other department representatives or prepared for Mr Burke or other department representatives ahead of the meeting of the Public Accounts Committee of December 10, 2015. 2. Any correspondence the Department or minister has received by a person seeking to draw attention to matters of concern or to make allegations regarding procurement practices or corporate governance in universities or institutes of technology since January 1, 2015.
- Received —Decided 2 December 2016Part-GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
1. A copy of the audit of PeoplePoint by the Data Protection Commissioner. 2. All correspondence with the office of the Data Protection Commissioner generated on foot of the audit of PeoplePoint. 3.All correspondence with PeoplePoint with regard to the audit and its recommendations.
- Received —Decided 30 November 2016Part-GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
copies of all records held by your Department in relation to the Ministerial or government decision not to take the pay rise due to officeholders under Haddington Road Agreement. copies of any correspondence/representations received regarding the above
- Received —Decided 30 November 2016GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
copies of all correspondence between your Department and the Association of Judges in Ireland to cover period 1 January 2015 and date of receipt of this request
- Received —Decided 26 November 2016Part-GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
The top 10 most visit websites by staff working in Department during 2015 and to date in 2016 and the number of times each site was visited. The number of times that staff working in the Department have logged onto the following social networking sites (i) Facebook (ii) YouTube and (iii) Twitter during the same period. Details of any breaches of the Department’s internet policy, any investigates that may have taken place and the sanctions taken.
- Received —Decided 25 November 2016RefusedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
All documentation and correspondence held by the Department in relation to the filling of the positions of Dublin City Coroner and Deputy Dublin City Coroner, since September 1st, 2015
- Received —Decided 24 November 2016RefusedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
Original tender letter for the provision of recovery/towing and management service contract in the Louth Area of the GT Group - Solicitor on behalf of Oriels auto specialists limited
- Received —Decided 22 November 2016RefusedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
All correspondence for 2016 between the Department of Public Expenditure and reform and the office of the Data Protection Commissioner regarding the Public Services Card.
- Received —Decided 15 November 2016Part-GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
Copies of all records relating to decision by ministers not to take pay rises due under Haddington Road agreement. This request to cover period 1 January 2016 to the current date. I am seeking copies of all emails, letters, memos, reports, submissions and so on relating to the above
- Received —Decided 11 November 2016RefusedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
Copy of correspondence between the secretary general of the Department of Transport and the secretary general of the Department of Public Expenditure since 01 June 2016 regarding the 2017 financial estimates process and the 2017 Budget
- Received —Decided 10 November 2016RefusedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
Copy of correspondence between the secretary general of the Department of Defence and the secretary general of the Department of Public Expenditure since 01 June 2016 regarding the 2017 financial estimates process and the 2017 Budget
- Received —Decided 10 November 2016GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
Copies of any correspondence between the Department and RTÉ regarding the appearance by Minister Paschal Donohoe on any radio or TV programme to discuss Budget 2017. Copies of any text messages/emails between Mr Donohoe's press or special advisers and RTÉ relating to the above which were sent using departmental phones or work/private email addresses.
- Received —Decided 10 November 2016GrantedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
1) The amount that the Dept of Public Expenditure and Reform spent on hiring taxis for work related business in the years 2013,2014,2015 and to-date in 2016 2) The amount that the Department spent on hiring on each taxi firms in each of those years mentioned above 3) If the Department has contracts with taxi firm to provide taxis upon request; if so the names of the taxi firms that have contracts and when contracts with each taxi firm due for renewal 4) If the Department put the contract out for public tender for the contract of providing taxi service to Dept of Public Expenditure and Reform 5) The robust steps that are being taken within the Department to ensure that any costs incurred for taxi service are best value for the taxpayers
- Received —Decided 9 November 2016RefusedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
1. How did the OGP decide on the minimum turnover threshold of €500,000 for the Creative & Digital Services PQQ. Please can I see all emails and communications related to this decision. 2. How many SMEs in Ireland that operate in the digital/marketing/communications/public relations/advertising services sectors will be excluded from this tender because of this threshold?
- Received —Decided 9 November 2016RefusedDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
a copy of the report, PeoplePoint: Optimal Resourcing Review reflecting present and future organisational requirements by Equita Consulting.