Public Expenditure Policy

2. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to outline the accountability measures in the accelerating infrastructure action plan; the way he intends to implement and enforce them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11340/26]

74. Deputy Brian Brennan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if his Department has completed any audit to assess public expenditure across rural areas to ensure a balanced approach to spending and fairness for rural towns and villages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11003/26]

85. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation his views on the rate of expenditure growth this time last year; the way in which this compares to the Medium Term Fiscal and Structural Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10785/26]

448. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation whether a consistent cost benefit and fiscal sustainability assessment framework is applied across major energy, transport and electricity grid infrastructure projects funded under the National Development Plan; whether this framework has been reviewed; and if he will make…

449. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if no central monitoring or enforcement mechanism exists to ensure consistent publication of procurement-related payment data in machine-readable formats across the public service; his views that this results in uneven transparency standards between Departments and agencies;…

452. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if he believes in the need for good-quality, publicly-available financial information of the non-profit sector in the interest of identifying funding gaps, analysing performance and promoting transparency; if he will consider reinstating funding for an organisation…

467. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the estimated cost of the most recent bank holiday to the Irish economy. [9652/26]

242. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation whether his Department has carried out or examined any value-for-money or whole-of-Exchequer cost assessment in respect of the outsourcing of a service (details supplied), including costs arising from contract payments, publicly funded capital or infrastructure expenditure…

454. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health the timeline for implementing the recommendations from the Comptroller and Auditor General's report discussed in the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee debate on 22 January 2026, with particular emphasis on enhancing transparency in public expenditure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7271/26]

389. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the new initiatives taken to ensure value for money in public expenditure; his priorities for 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [73556/25]

39. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the total Supplementary Estimates in 2025 to date. [69853/25]

371. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the status of the proposed 2024-2026 Spending Review cycle that was noted in the Public Service Performance Report 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62769/25]

372. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if a review was undertaken by his Department into the 2017 to 2022 and the 2023 spending review cycles; if so, if he will publish this review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62770/25]

401. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if the Civil Service HR Analytics Hub, or any cross-departmental working group, maintains or plans to establish a longitudinal dataset linking State-funded higher education graduates with subsequent public sector employment and emigration data, to better understand return on…

402. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation whether consideration has been given to implementing a 'human capital accounting' framework linking education and training investment per profession to subsequent employment, retention, and lifetime tax contribution to inform workforce planning and reduce talent leakage in c…

403. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if his Department has modelled the return on investment of public education spending by tracking tax receipts of graduates over time; and if not, if such an analysis will be undertaken across Departments using Revenue and CSO microdata. [61184/25]

405. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation his views on whether organisations in receipt of public funding (details supplied) should continue to receive such funding when they fail to recognise or engage with a trade union representing their employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61249/25]

409. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation further to Parliamentary Question No. 541 of 4 November 2025, which requested a breakdown by Departmental vote of various aggregate amounts set out in Table 2 on page 12 of the Expenditure Report and his response, to correct and confirm each of the amounts contained in thi…

410. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide the calculations used by his Department to arrive at the figure of 0.9 billion for 'Increase in Recipients' published in the Expenditure Report 2025. [61590/25]

411. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide further details of the component parts that make up the €1.4 billion other category; and to confirm whether any of the allocation arises from policy changes due to commence in 2026; and if so the portion. [61591/25]

412. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation whether any of the €2.2 billion allocated to 'Key Policy Adjustments and Expansion of Services' relates to an increase in recipients; and if so the portion. [61592/25]

413. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation whether any of the €0.9 billion allocated to increase in recipients relates to key policy adjustments or expansion of services due to commence in 2026. [61593/25]

414. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to clarify the Budget Package component described as 'Key Policy Adjustments and Expansion of Services' including the parameters determining which funding provisions are captured by this heading; and the way in which these parameters differ from those pertaining to the hea…

428. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation further to Parliamentary Question No. 143 of 6 November 2025, if any of the €35 million penalty paid by a company (details supplied) after it pulled out of a wind farm project will be invested into local communities in Connemara; and if he will make a statement on the mat…

475. 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]