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Presentation of Estimates: Motion
Jack Chambers 17 Jun 2025
Resolutions of the Dáil of 1st April, 2025 and 21st May, 2025, the following Revised Estimates and Second Further Revised Estimate for Public Services for the year ending 31st December, 2025, be presented to the Dáil and circulated to members on 17th June, 2025, being a date later … than that prescribed for the presentation of Estimates: Vote 11 — Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (Revised Estimate). Vote 12 — Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised Estimate). Vote 13 — Office of Public Works (Revised Estimate). Vote 14 — State Laboratory (Revised Estimate). Vote 15 — Secret Service (Revised Estimate
Order of Business
Mary Butler 2 Dec 2025
back from Committee) (to conclude within 60 minutes and any division claimed to be taken immediately) - Motion for a Further Revised Estimate for Public Services 2025 [Vote 29] (back from Committee) (without debate and any division claimed to be taken immediately) - Motions for Supplementary Estimates for Public Services … share time; and (c) any division claimed thereon shall be taken immediately; 7. the proceedings on the Motion for a Further Revised Estimate for Public Services 2025 [Vote 29] shall be taken without debate and any division claimed thereon shall be taken immediately; 8. the following arrangements shall
Order of Business
Mary Butler 1 Apr 2025
move: Tuesday’s business shall be: - Motion re Presentation and Circulation of Revised Estimates for Public Services 2025 [Votes 24, 41 and 46] (any division demanded shall be taken immediately) - Motion re Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle (any division claimed to be taken immediately) - Motions for Revised Estimates … oral Parliamentary Questions to the Minister for Foreign Affairs; 2. the proceedings on the Motion re Presentation and Circulation of Revised Estimates for Public Services 2025 [Votes 24, 41 and 46] shall be taken without debate, and any division claimed thereon shall be taken immediately; 3. the Motion
Supplementary Estimates for Public Services 2025: Leave to Introduce
Martin Heydon 12 Nov 2025
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
Estimates for Public Services 2026: Messages from Select Committees
John McGuinness 25 Feb 2026
Select Committee on Transport has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2026: Vote 31 - Transport. The Select Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development has completed its consideration of the following Revised … Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2026: Vote 37 - Social Protection and Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development. The Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimate for Public Services
Estimates for Public Services 2025: Messages from Select Committees
Verona Murphy 25 Jun 2025
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach has completed its considerations of the following Revised Estimates for Public Services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2025: Votes 11,12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 39 and 43. The Select … Committee on Health has completed its considerations of the following Revised Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2025: Vote
Messages from Select Committees
John McGuinness 26 Nov 2025
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
Estimates for Public Services: Messages from Select Committees
Cathal Crowe 9 Jul 2025
Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimate for public services for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2025: Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. The Select Committee … Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimates for public services for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2025: Vote 1 - President's Establishment; Vote 2 - Taoiseach; Vote 3 - Attorney General; Vote 4 - Central
Estimates for Public Services 2025: Messages from Select Committees
Ruairí Ó Murchú 2 Jul 2025
Select Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2025: Vote 42. The Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach … completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2025: Vote
Presentation of Estimates: Motion
Paschal Donohoe 20 May 2025
Éireann relative to Public Business or the Resolution of the Dáil of 1st April, 2025, the following Revised Estimates and Further Revised Estimate for Public Services for the year ending 31st December, 2025, be presented to the Dáil and circulated to members on 20th May, 2025, being … Office of the Attorney General (Revised Estimate). Vote 4 — Central Statistics Office (Revised Estimate). Vote 5 — Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised Estimate). Vote 6 — Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised Estimate). Vote 7 — Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised Estimate). Vote 8 — Office
Order of Business
Mary Butler 12 May 2026
immediately) - Critical Infrastructure Bill 2026 (Report and Final Stages) (to conclude within 1 hour) - Motion re Presentation and Circulation of Further Revised Estimate for Public Services 2026 [Vote 26] (without debate and any division claimed to be taken immediately) Wednesday's private members' business shall be the Second … Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation; and 7. the proceedings on the Motion re Presentation and Circulation of Further Revised Estimate for Public Services 2026 [Vote 26] shall be taken without debate, and any division claimed thereon shall be taken immediately. In relation to Thursday
Order of Business
Mary Butler 20 May 2025
Financial Contribution) Order 2025 (to be taken no earlier than 6.30 p.m. and to conclude within 60 mins) - Motions for Revised Estimates for Public Services 2025 [Votes 25 and 40] (to be moved together and decided by one question, and to conclude within 60 minutes) - Motion for Further … Revised Estimate for Public Services 2025 [Vote 24] (to conclude within 60 minutes) Wednesday's private members' business shall be the Motion re Fair and Sustainable Funding for Carers, Home Support and Nursing Homes Support, selected by the Independent Technical Group. Thursday's business shall be Statements
Order of Business
Mary Butler 24 Mar 2026
within 60 mins) - National Oil Reserve Energy (Amendment) Bill 2026 (Committee and Remaining Stages) (to conclude within 60 mins) - Motions for Revised Estimates for Public Services 2026 [Votes 1-10, 13, 16, 20-25, 27-32 and 34-45] (back from Committee) (to be moved together and decided … Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment; 6. the following arrangements shall apply to the proceedings on the Motions for Revised Estimates for Public Services 2026 [Votes 1-10, 13, 16, 20-25, 27-32 and 34-45]: (a) the motions shall be moved and decided together
Public Sector Pay
Jack Chambers 29 May 2025
have continued to grow significantly. Between 2015 and quarter 1 of 2025, which is the most recent data available to my Department, overall estimated public service numbers in full-time equivalent terms increased by over 36% from 302,000 to over 411,000. The public service
Estimates for Public Services 2025: Messages from Select Committees
Verona Murphy 16 Jul 2025
Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2025: Vote 33. The Select Committee on Fisheries and Marine Affairs has completed its consideration … following Revised Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2025: Vote
Estimates for Public Services 2025: Messages from Select Committees
Verona Murphy 26 Nov 2025
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
Estimates for Public Services 2025: Messages from Select Committees
John McGuinness 25 Nov 2025
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
Estimates for Public Services 2026: Messages from Select Committees
David Maxwell 26 Feb 2026
Select Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2026: Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment. The Select Committee on Agriculture and Food has completed its consideration … following Revised Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2026: Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Messages from Select Committees
Ruairí Ó Murchú 15 Jul 2025
Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimates for Public Services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2025: Votes 16, 23 and 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage. The Select Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs … completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2025: Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Estimates for Public Services 2026: Messages from Select Committees
Verona Murphy 3 Mar 2026
Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimates for public services for the year ending 31 December 2026: Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána; Vote 21 - Irish Prison Service; Vote 22 - Courts Service; Vote 24 - Justice, Home Affairs and Migration … Protection Commission; and Vote 45 - Fíosrú. The Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2026: Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment
Order of Business
Mary Butler 4 Nov 2025
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
Order of Business
Mary Butler 12 Nov 2025
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
Order of Business
Mary Butler 25 Nov 2025
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
Order of Business
Mary Butler 30 Jun 2026
move: Tuesday's business shall be: - Supplementary Estimates for Public Services [Votes 30 and 31] (back from Committee) (without debate, to moved together and decided by one question and any division claimed to be taken immediately) - Motion re Thirteenth Report of the Standing Committee of Selection (without debate … Dáil shall adjourn on the conclusion of private members’ business; 2. the following arrangements shall apply to the Motions for Supplementary Estimates for Public Services [Votes 30 and 31]: (a) the motions shall be moved and decided together by one question; (b) the proceedings thereon shall be taken

In parliamentary questions

6 Mar 2025 · to Housing
Tourism Bill General Scheme; details of further public or stakeholder consultations on these guidelines ahead of its publication; the current status and estimated publication date of the aforementioned planning guidelines and legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10284/25
6 Mar 2025 · to Tourism
titled Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill General Scheme and the Planning Guidelines for the Short-Term Letting sector; the current status and estimated publication date of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10283/25
Albert Dolan Written
9 Jun 2026 · to Public Expenditure
Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 367 and 368 of 17 September 2025, regarding the estimate that public procurement accounts for approximately €18.5 billion annually, if he will provide the actual dataset used to calculate public procurement expenditure across the public … same methodology as the €18.5 billion estimate; if so, whether this remains based on a summation of estimated contract notice values published on eTenders rather than actual expenditure incurred under public contracts; whether he has considered asking each contracting authority or accounting officer to report annually
Albert Dolan Written
17 Sep 2025 · to Public Expenditure
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
Maeve O'Connell Written
29 Apr 2025 · to Justice
Connell asked the Minister for Justice to report on the reasoning that informs his Department's edition of the 2025 Revised Estimates for Public Services’ 38% annual increase in the funding provided for under the administration heading ‘travel and subsistence’, when compared to the estimate for 2024. [20877/25
Maeve O'Connell Written
29 Apr 2025 · to Justice
Connell asked the Minister for Justice to report on the reasoning that informs his Department's edition of the 2025 Revised Estimates for Public Services’ significant increase in the funding provided for under the administration heading, ‘policy reviews, consultancy services and research’ when compared to the estimate
Sorca Clarke Written
20 May 2026 · to Education
Youth if she will explain the 4% reduction in the allocation for the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) in the Further Revised Estimates for Public Services; whether this reduction will impact recruitment, waiting times or access to psychological assessments and supports for schools and students
Charles Ward Written
18 Mar 2026 · to Housing
remediation of dwellings affected by defective concrete; the current status of this review; whether any interim findings or updates will be made publicly available; the estimated timeframe for the completion and publication of the revised standard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20099/26
Colm Burke Written
19 Feb 2026 · to Health
that the estimate for immunisation has increased from €10,788,000 in 2025 to €54,377,000 in 2026 in the Revised Estimates for Public Services under primary care reimbursement services (details supplied); the cause for this increase in immunisation spend; the services or costs which fall under
Albert Dolan Written
12 Nov 2025 · to Education
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
12 Nov 2025 · to Further and Higher Education
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
Grace Boland Written
8 Sep 2025 · to Enterprise
Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if he will clarify how MicroFinance Ireland’s funding is accounted for in the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47055/25
Aidan Farrelly Written
29 Jul 2025 · to Enterprise
Farrelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment to explain how funding for Microfinance Ireland is accounted for in the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2025, given that only €1,000 is assigned to MFI while it approves several million euro in loans each year
Eoin Ó Broin Written
8 Apr 2025 · to Housing
Housing will be brought to the Oireachtas; to outline the programme level changes within this subhead to those outlined in the revised estimates for Public service 2025 published by the Department of Finance in December 2024. [16907/25
Eoin Ó Broin Written
8 Apr 2025 · to Housing
details supplied) and the capital allocation for housing of €3.094 billion for 2025 as set out on page 159 of the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2025 published by his Department in December 2024. [16908/25
Eoin Ó Broin Written
3 Apr 2025 · to Housing
local authority area, in tabular form; and to confirm that this funding is additional to the funding detailed in the revised estimate for public services published by the Department of Finance on 19 December 2024. [16421/25
Ivana Bacik Written
11 Feb 2025 · to Further and Higher Education
million increase in funding for ‘enterprise-focused higher education’ under the National Training Fund, as set out in the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2025, will be made available to training courses currently funded by the human capital initiative, given that the initiative is due to come
7 Jul 2026 · to Health
Minister for Health the number of people currently on waiting lists for essential care in outpatient, inpatient and day case treatment in public hospitals; the estimated total cost of clearing these waiting lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51321/26
Michael Cahill Written
30 Jun 2026 · to Transport
Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Transport the estimated cost for Public Service Obligation for public transport services if increased by 35% in Budget 2027. [49650/26
Sorca Clarke Written
28 Apr 2026 · to Health
Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the estimated date of publication for the third phase of the Women's Health Action Plan. [30639/26
Pa Daly Written
18 Mar 2026 · to Climate
Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill; to provide a timeline for its progression through the Houses of the Oireachtas; and an estimated timeline for publication. [20758/26
Pearse Doherty Written
18 Dec 2025 · to Finance
Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the total estimated amount of public money that will be handed over to property developers for apartments that would have been built anyway from Budget Day to 2030 accounting for measures related to VAT, restricting additionality to only
Pearse Doherty Written
9 Dec 2025 · to Finance
Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the total estimated amount of public money that will be handed over to property developers for apartments that would have been built anyway from budget day to 2030 accounting for measures related to VAT and enhanced deductions, restricting
18 Nov 2025 · to Transport
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
25 Sep 2025 · to Finance
Minister for Finance if consideration is being given to the introduction of a draught rebate or excise/VAT relief scheme for rural public houses; the estimated Exchequer cost of such a scheme; the alternative supports being planned to protect rural pubs as social and cultural hubs in communities

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