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Spending Review 2020
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- 1. Executive Summaries
- 2. Education
- 3. Enterprise
- 4. Civil and Public Sector Staffing, Pay and Pensions
- 5. Foreign Affairs and Trade
- 6. Children
- 7. Climate Change
- 8. Agriculture
- 9. Defence
- 10. Transport
- 11. Justice & Courts Service
- 12. State Property
- 13. Health
- 14. Housing
- 15. Government Expenditure
The Spending Review process aims to facilitate the development of policy analysis and evaluation in support of the service-wide agenda of evidence-informed policy making. The Spending Review in 2020 resulted in 25 published papers, two of which fall into the category of social impact assessment (SIA) . To make this work more accessible, two documents containing the executive summaries of the 2020 papers have also been published.
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Executive Summaries – Tranche 1 Publications
This document sets out the executive summaries for the first tranche of 2020 spending review papers.
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Executive Summaries - Tranche 2 Publications
This document sets out the executive summaries for the second tranche of 2020 spending review papers.
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Social Impact Assessment Series: Student Grant Scheme (SUSI Grants)
This paper establishes a baseline profile of the recipients of the student grants in the 2017/2018 academic year.
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Teacher Allocation Model
This paper focuses on the processes and mechanisms by which mainstream teachers, including principals, are allocated to primary and post-primary schools.
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The Composition of Employment in Small and Large Firms
This paper examines the profile and characteristics of employment in firms of different sizes and the changes in this profile between 2002 and 2017.
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State-Supported Loan Schemes
This paper reviews the state-supported loan schemes to clarify their stated objectives, examine the profile of recipients, assess the approaches and data needed for comprehensive evaluation, and to determine the potential implications of scheme design for the incentives of private lending institutions and borrowers.
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Review of the Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund
This review examines the rationale for State funding of funding disruptive technologies and profiles activity to date.
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Assessment of the impact of Brexit and COVID19 on Údarás na Gaeltachta and its client companies
This paper sets out to examine the impact of Brexit on Údarás na Gaeltachta’s client companies.
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Job Churn in the Public Service - A trend analysis of the workforce dynamics during the years 2006-2018
This paper presents a comparative perspective of the dynamics of job churn across the public service.
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Civil Service Overview, New Joiners and Temporary Clerical Officers
This paper presents (i) a high level overview of the Civil Service workforce in 2020, (ii) a comparison of the profiles of new joiners to the Civil Service during two time periods, recent new joiners 2015-2019 and earlier new joiners 2006 to 2008 and (iii) an analysis of temporary clerical officer (TCO) usage from 2007 to 2019.
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The Single Scheme – Improving the Sustainability of Public Service Pensions
This paper sets out an overview of the Single Public Service Pension Scheme, assessing the impact of the scheme since its introduction.
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Focused Policy Assessment: Paid Parent’s Leave Scheme
This paper is a cross cutting analysis designed to review the approach to meeting the requirements and policy aims of the EU Work-life Balance Directive.
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The Ethiopia Country Strategy 2014 -2019
The purpose of this paper is to: (i) assess the effectiveness of The Embassy of Ireland’s 2014 – 2019 Country Strategy Paper (CSP) for Ethiopia in reaching its objectives; (ii) assess the underlying processes used to develop and implement a CSP; and (iii) assess what learnings from this process can inform Ireland’s future approach to developing country strategies.
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Tusla Residential Care Costs
This paper assesses expenditure on Tusla residential care costs.
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Tusla: Staffing and Workforce Planning
This paper addresses a number of key questions regarding Tusla’s pay and staffing experiences to date.
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SEAI Energy Efficiency Grant Schemes
This paper examines the evidence available over the past ten years of Government support schemes for undertaking energy efficiency measures for the private household sector in Ireland.
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Teagasc: Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Programme
This paper examines the progress of AGRIP towards objectives set and their alignment with sectoral targets as set out in Food Wise 2025.
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DAFM Competitive Research Programmes
This paper seeks to evaluate the three Competitive Research Funding Programmes (CRFPs) administered by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) for the period 2010-2017.
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Expenditure on Overseas Peace Support Missions
This paper examines expenditure on overseas peace support missions.
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Analysis of PSO Public Transport Programme and Performance
The paper provides an overview of Public Service Obligation (PSO) funding of public transport services.
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Toward Digitally-Enabled Court Services: Review of Investment in Courtroom Technology and the Creation of a Centralised Jury Summons Unit
The paper describes spending on courtroom technology from 2015 to 2019 and then examines the creation of a Jury Summons Office last year. The paper outlines the rationale behind the initiatives, highlighting some of the potential efficiencies associated with the use of modern technology and the productivity gains that can be achieved.
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Designing Performance Metrics in Policing
This paper highlights good practice identified in the literature review and employed in other jurisdictions regarding the selection of suitable performance indicators to measure performance.
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Analysis of Covid Impacts on Commercial Office Market – Potential Implications for State Leases
This paper examines the emerging trends in the office rental market, office accommodation demand in the Civil Service and the potential impact of remote working on demand particularly noting the COVID-19 experience and the commitment to 20% remote working across public service as indicated in the current Programme for Government.
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Private Expenditure on GP Care in Ireland
This paper is an assessment based on available information aimed at informing the Department’s perspective for future policy developments and resulting expenditure considerations for the expansion of free GP care.
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