358. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the case for increased grant funding in Budget 2026 raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48020/25]
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359. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide emergency funding for coastal protection works at Rossbeigh Beach, Glenbeigh, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48100/25]
360. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide emergency funding to strengthen the embankment and protect homes and properties from tidal flooding at Cromane Lower, Killorglin, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48101/25]
361. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide emergency funding for coastal protection works at Waterville, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48102/25]
362. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide emergency funding to strengthen the embankment and protect properties from tidal flooding at Glosha, Cromane, Killorglin, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48103/25]
363. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if the Office of Government Procurement will mandate enhanced pre-award checks for high-risk social care contracts (details supplied); if a clawback protocol for safeguarding breaches will be standardised across contracting authorities; and the timeframes for policy issuance. [48152/25]
364. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if he will provide a schedule of OPW owned and leased sites and buildings in County Kildare, in tabular form. [48198/25]
365. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if his Department has signed off on the business case for the National Transport Authority’s next generation ticketing project; if not, when a decision is expected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48243/25]
366. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the assessment his Department has made of the value for money of the next generation ticketing project; if an external assurance process was undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48245/25]
367. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation further to the statement by the accounting officer of his Department before the Oireachtas Committee of Public Accounts on 10 July 2025 (details supplied), the precise methodology used by his Department or the Office of Government Procurement to calculate this €18.5 billion figure; whether the …
368. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation further to the accounting officer's statement before the Oireachtas Committee of Public Accounts on 10 July 2025, that public procurement now accounts for an estimated €18.5 billion annually (details supplied), if he will provide the equivalent annual estimate for the total value of public proc…
369. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if his Department or the Office of Government Procurement maintain estimates of public procurement expenditure by major category, such as works, goods and services; if so, to provide figures showing the relative breakdown by category, for each of the past ten years; and if he will identify the …
370. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the total in budget overruns, if they occurred, by each Government Department, by year, from 2015 to 2024. [48367/25]
371. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the measures in place to ensure that Government Departments stay within their allocated budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48368/25]
372. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if the new infrastructure delivery unit will publish regional breakdowns of NDP expenditure and project delivery status, specifically in respect of Cork; and if he will make such reporting publicly available on a quarterly basis. [48389/25]
373. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if his Department has assessed the risk of over-centralisation of NDP investment in Dublin; and whether safeguards have been introduced to ensure balanced development across all three regions of Ireland. [48390/25]
374. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if he accepts the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council’s assessment that the credibility of the Budget process is being undermined by the concealment of spending overruns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48393/25]
375. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the measures being taken to ensure that spending forecasts for Budget 2026 reflect realism and transparency, in line with IFAC recommendations. [48394/25]
376. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to detail the total cost of expenditure overruns, by Department in 2025 to date; and the corrective actions, if any, being implemented to manage these overruns. [48395/25]
377. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if he will commit to publishing quarterly reports on departmental spending variances in order to prevent the concealment of overruns and to restore public trust in the budgetary process. [48396/25]
378. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if he accepts the warning of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council that persistent overspending without disclosure risks overheating the economy and undermining fiscal stability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48397/25]
379. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the flood relief works currently ongoing at present that are being funded by the OPW; when each of those flood relief works will be completed, in tabular form. [48409/25]
380. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the flood relief projects currently funded by OPW and that are currently undergoing construction; and when each of those projects will be completed, in tabular form. [48436/25]
381. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide details of the clubs (details supplied) which have a pitch allocation in the 15 acres in the Phoenix Park; and the person or body responsible for pitch allocations in the years 2023 to 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48619/25]
382. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the position regarding the current usage and future plans for a building (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48620/25]