Louise O'Reilly
Question:
234. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation for a breakdown of every agency, not-for-profit organisation, charity or service provider directly funded by his Department; and the details of each specific directly funded post in each body. [62481/25]
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I wish to advise the Deputy that a deferred reply will be issued to her in respect of this Parliamentary Question, in line with Standing Order 52(1)(b).
The following deferred reply was received under Standing Order 52.
I wish to advise the Deputy that five of the six bodies under the aegis of the Department are Civil Service Offices. These are the Office of Public Works (OPW), the National Shared Services Office (NSSO), the Public Appointments Service (PAS), the Office of the Ombudsman and the State Laboratory. The relevant Accounting Officer of each body under the aegis is accountable to the Oireachtas for the proper expenditure of moneys provided by the Exchequer for the management and administration of the Office, including for funding staff and pay within their own organisations. The sixth body is the Office of the Regulator of the National Lottery (ORNL) which is funded directly through a levy payable by the operator of the National Lottery and not through the Department.
The position with regard to organisations that are grant funded by the Department is as follows:
• Transparency International Ireland (TII) receives grant funding from my Department to support the Department’s role in the implementation of the Protected Disclosures Act. The Department provides this funding in order to help workers raise concerns regarding potential wrongdoing that has come to their attention in the workplace. Most of the grant funding is used to fund eight roles in TII.
• The Institute of Public Administration (IPA) receives grant funding to assist them in the provision of services across the Public Service. The Institute provides specialist education, learning and development, thought leadership and advisory services for public servants and organisations across the Public Service.
• The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) produces research that contributes to understanding economic and social change and that informs public policymaking and civil society in Ireland. Grant funding provided my Department assists the ESRI to carry out this research.
• My Department is joint sponsor for the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB) along with the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland. As a North South Implementation Body, the SEUPB operates under the policy direction of the North South Ministerial Council (NSMC). In May 2024, the NSMC approved a headcount of 88 for SEUPB in order to support the management and implementation of the €1.1 billion cross-border PEACEPLUS programme.
