State Solicitor (Supplementary Estimate).
Vote 7 — Office of the Minister for Finance (Supplementary Estimate).
Vote 9 — Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary Estimate).
Vote 11 — Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (Supplementary Estimate).
Vote 13 — Office of Public Works (Supplementary Estimate).
Vote 14 — State Laboratory (Supplementary … Estimate).
Vote 17 — Public Appointments Service (Supplementary Estimate).
Vote 18 — National Shared Services Office (Supplementary Estimate).
Vote 20 — Garda Síochána (Supplementary Estimate).
Vote 21 — Prisons (Supplementary Estimate).
Vote 22 — Courts Service (Supplementary Estimate).
Vote 24 — Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (Supplementary Estimate).
Vote 26 — Education and Youth (Supplementary
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Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2025: Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade.
The Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation … Taoiseach has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2025: Votes Nos. 11, 13, 14, 17 and 18 - Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2025: Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport.
The Select Committee on Children and Equality has completed its consideration … following Supplementary Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2025: Vote 40 - Children, Disability and Equality
Select Committee on Defence and National Security has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2025: Vote 36 - Defence.
The Select Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs has completed its consideration of the following … Further Revised Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2025: Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
previously concluded, to conclude either at 12.10 a.m. or after 4 hours, whichever is the later)
- Motion for Further Revised Estimate for Public Services [Vote 33] (without debate) (back from committee) (any division claimed to be taken immediately)
Wednesday's private members' business shall be the Motion … taken later than 8.45 p.m. and shall in any event be taken on the conclusion of the Motion for Further Revised Estimate for Public Services 2025 [Vote 33];
(b) pursuant to an Order of the Dáil of 21st October, 2025, Parliamentary Questions to the Minister for Public Expenditure
Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2025 (without debate) (any division claimed to be taken immediately)
- Motion re leave to introduce Supplementary Estimates for Public Services 2025 [Votes … without debate and any division claimed thereon shall be taken immediately;
3. the proceedings on the motion re leave to introduce Supplementary Estimates for Public Services 2025 [Votes
conclusion within 60 mins, with separate questions put on each motion and any divisions claimed to be taken immediately)
- Supplementary Estimates for Public Services 2025 [Votes 2 and 6] (to be moved together and brought to a conclusion within 60 minutes; to be decided by one question … divisions demanded shall be taken immediately;
5. notwithstanding anything in Standing Order 217, in relation to the Motions for Supplementary Estimates for Public Services 2025 [Votes 2 and 6], the following arrangements shall apply:
(a) the proceedings on the motions shall, if not previously concluded, be brought
Select Committee on Agriculture and Food has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for the public services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2025: Vote 30.
The Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science has completed its consideration … following Supplementary Estimate for the public services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2025: Vote
Standing Order 35(3), I propose an amendment to the Order of Business to strike from the business of the day Supplementary Estimates for Public Services 2025 - Votes 2 and 6. These Estimates have not been scrutinised by the relevant committee, that being the finance committee. The Taoiseach
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform, Digitalisation and Taoiseach has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimates for Public Services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2025: Votes
Select Committee on Education and Youth has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2025: Vote
Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2025: Vote
Select Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimates for Public Services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2025: Votes
Select Committee on Health has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2025: Vote
Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimates for public services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2025: Votes 20 to 22, inclusive
Minister of State, Mary Hanafin, attended select committee; Deputy Jack Chambers, who was Minister of State at the time, took Director of Public Prosecutions Supplementary Estimates on 30 November 2022; and on Thursday, 23 November 2023, the Chief Whip, Deputy Naughton, took the DPP Supplementary Estimates
Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Transport the actions his Department is undertaking to deliver contactless payments on all public transport; the estimated timeline for the introduction of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63320/25
Chief State Solicitor, following on from the Taoiseach attending the Joint and Select Committees on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach on the 2025 Revised Estimates for the Vote group on 9 July this year.
The key function of the Department of the Taoiseach … provision for tribunals of inquiry and commissions of investigation was discussed with the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation as part of the 2025 Estimates process. Given that substantial allocations that had been made under these subheads in previous years went unspent
Will the Minister of State outline the actions his Department has undertaken to deliver contactless payments on all public transport and the estimated timeline for the introduction of this
number of people who are currently in Ireland subject to deportation orders.". There you have it.
The Committee of Public Accounts has heard that the State spent an estimated €2.1 billion on IPAS last year. That means €2.1 billion of the public's hard-earned money went
increase in the real burden of income tax.” It also states, “In the event of an economic downturn and unexpected deterioration in the public finances ... [we would] postpone changes to income tax credits or bands, as we did in Budget 2021”. I am happy to engage further with … recently, the budget 2026 strategy paper set out information relating to indexing the income tax system, including the estimated cost to the Exchequer. The costs used in this publication were taken from the Revenue Commissioners’ ready reckoner publication. This year’s annual progress report also included projections
must also stress that when finalising the 2025 Revised Estimate for the Department of the Taoiseach, the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation agreed that any additional third party cost falling due in 2025 would be funded by way of a Supplementary Estimate
Deputy for the proposed amendment. The issue of reducing private income in public hospitals is one on which he and I agree. Indeed, we discussed it during the recent debate on the Estimates at the Oireachtas select committee. It is particularly pertinent given that this is the year … have reached a critical mass of consultants on the public-only consultant contract and this is the year we expect to see it in our figures. We had a good discussion about that in the context of the Estimates. I do not expect this to be a recurring
addition to environmental benefits, the economic impact of active travel across the five metropolitan areas is estimated at over €3 billion annually, alongside major and important improvements in public health and air quality.
The Deputy refers specifically to commuters in County Dublin and I am delighted
Department undertook several pieces of analysis to support resource allocation. The public service performance report was published in June and it detailed how Departments performed against targets set in the Revised Estimates process. We published the national development plan review in July. We spoke about that previously. Importantly
In parliamentary questions
Albert Dolan
Written
Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the estimated average public expenditure per pupil in primary, post-primary, and further/third-level education; and if these figures are in nominal or constant prices, for each school year from 1990 to 2025. [60953/25
Albert Dolan
Written
Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated average public cost of training a primary teacher and a post-primary teacher to full qualification, including teacher education programme funding, teaching practice costs, and capitation grants to colleges of education
Louis O'Hara
Oral
Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Transport the actions his Department is undertaking to deliver contactless payments on all public transport; the estimated timeline for the introduction of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63320/25
Ken O'Flynn
Written
Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the estimated additional cost to the Exchequer or to the relevant State bodies arising from the implementation of revised remuneration bands for chief executives and senior management, by organisation, in tabular form
Barry Ward
Written
Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the estimated cost of operating polling stations for the recent presidential election; broken down by the cost of renting locations, staffing costs and other ancillary costs, in tabular form; and if he will
Barry Ward
Written
Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the estimated overall cost to the State of the operation of the recent presidential election; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59909/25
James Geoghegan
Written
Department, with specific regard to any reforms to the deemed disposal tax for exchange traded funds; the timeline for the publication of the roadmap; if any cost estimate was done in advance of the last budget in respect of the deemed disposal rule for Irish investors in exchange
Pearse Doherty
Written
Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Youth the estimated gross cost of extending State indemnity to all public primary and post-primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [66810/25
Louise O'Reilly
Written
Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the breakdown of the estimated 30,000 additional recipients across the pension, illness, disability and carers schemes respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65199/25
Aengus Ó Snodaigh
Written
Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide the Abridged Estimates Volume for Budget 2026 for Vote 15 including the provisional sub head and programme level allocations. [59537/25
Aengus Ó Snodaigh
Written
Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide the Abridged Estimates Volume for Budget 2026 for Vote 13 including the provisional sub head and programme level allocations. [59538/25
Ken O'Flynn
Written
Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost to the HSE of providing non-medical circumcision in public hospitals in each of the past five years, including consultant time, theatre use, anaesthesia, and post-operative care. [65351/25
Pearse Doherty
Written
Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Youth the estimated cost of insurance for personal injury and third-party property damage for all public primary and post-primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [67304/25
Ken O'Flynn
Written
balance-sheet credit lines within the Irish financial system; the assumptions underpinning that estimate; to state when it was last reviewed; and to confirm whether he will commit to regular publication and parliamentary scrutiny of such figures. [64775/25
Ruairí Ó Murchú
Written
Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the Government's retrofitting targets across public housing, have been set for 2026; when the 2026 targets will be set for local authorities' stock retrofitting; the estimated budget for retrofitting of social housing stock in 2026; and if he will make
Ryan O'Meara
Written
Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the progress to date of the Nenagh flood relief scheme; when this project will proceed to the next stage; the estimate budget for this scheme, if yet determined; and if he will
Albert Dolan
Written
applicants, by service that is GP/primary care (including GP visit cards), pharmacy/medicines, public health (screening, vaccination), emergency department, inpatient and outpatient activity, mental-health services, dental, interpreting and any per-applicant or per-episode cost estimates used for internal planning, from 2022 to date in 2025. [61175/25
Ken O'Flynn
Written
Houses of the Oireachtas Commission that the recent public tender for the recording, broadcasting and archival services for Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann closed on 10 October 2025 without receiving any valid tenders; the total estimated contract value; and his views on the implications for service continuity
Ruairí Ó Murchú
Oral
Murchú asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the way in which the incorrectly spelled new sign outside his Department came to be put in place; the total cost of the sign; the estimated cost for the removal and a replacement sign
Paula Butterly
Written
Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill as is currently drafted in relation to the advertising of nicotine, vaping and nicotine pouch products; the levels of advertisement that will be permitted and restricted under the current drafting of the bill; to provide an estimate of when
John Clendennen
Written
Deputy John Clendennen asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the details of any planned schedule of works for Garda stations in County Offaly, in 2026; the stations in the county for which works are planned; the nature and scope of those works … anticipated timelines for commencement and completion in each case; and the estimated cost of each project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [66259/25
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