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Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 29 September 2026

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Tuesday, 29 September 2026

Questions (336)

Ged Nash

Question:

336. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide respectively the Departmental gross voted capital allocations for 2026 following the Revised Estimates; the cause of the divergence from the allocations in the revised NDP or in Budget 2026; and if he will provide the proposed 2027 gross voted allocations, in tabular form. [68164/26]

Written answers

Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation

Departmental capital expenditure ceilings for the period 2026-2030 were set out in the National Development Plan (NDP) Review which was published in July 2025. The NDP Review detailed a total gross voted capital expenditure ceiling for 2026 of €19.1 billion, €18.8 billion of which was assigned to Departments at that stage. These NDP capital allocations form the basis of the Revised Estimates gross voted capital amounts for 2026. A number of adjustments were made to the Departmental capital ceilings as part of the Estimates process. These primarily relate to:

Allocation of €0.2 billion of Shared Island Fund, which was unallocated in the NDP review

Allocation of €0.1 billion of European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), which was unallocated in the NDP review

Transfers of capital funding between Votes related to the Just Transition Fund

Other additional capital allocations from temporary funding in 2026 relating to EU Presidency and RePowerEU

Details are set out in the General Note of the Revised Estimates 2026 available at: www.gov.ie/en/department-of-public-expenditure-infrastructure-public-service-reform-and-digitalisation/collections/the-revised-estimates-volumes-for-the-public-service/#2026.

For 2027, the NDP sets out €20.3 billion for gross voted capital expenditure, of which €20.1 billion was assigned at Department level with €0.2 billion of Shared Island to be allocated. Departmental allocations, as published in NDP, are set out in the table below.

Vote Group / Department	NDP 2026	REV 2026	Reason for Change	NDP 2027
	€ m	€ m	€ m	€m
Agriculture	315	337	RePowerEU Allocation	325
Children	138	138		175
Climate	850	835	Just Transition Fund reduction for transfers to other Departments. ERDF and Shared Island Allocations	1,049
Culture	701	725	Shared Island Fund Allocation	450
Defence	300	300		340
DFA	40	40		40
DSP	17	17		26
Education	1,600	1,659	RePowerEU and Shared Island Allocations	1,600
Enterprise	680	762	Just Transition Fund, ERDF and Shared Island Allocations	710
FHERIS	810	841	ERDF and Shared Island Fund Allocation	925
Finance	24	24		23
Health	1,560	1,560		1,720
Housing	7,246	7,351	Just Transition Fund, ERDF and Shared Island Allocations	7,421
Justice	390	390		430
PER	402	414	EU Presidency Allocation	380
Rural	273	273	Shared Island Fund Allocation	273
Taoiseach	-	-		-
Transport	3,430	3,440	RePowerEU and Shared Island Allocations	4,175
Total	18,776	19,106		20,062

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