Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

It provides the technical assistance costs relating to the preparation, management and monitoring audit of Ireland's EU structural funds programmes. It concerns the administration and e-cohesion system for exchanging data electronically. The increase in 2025 is due to capital costs to ensure the systems used by the team to communicate with the EU for claims and audits are kept in line with EU requirements. Should they not be kept in line, it could delay multimillion-euro claims from the EU on some of the cohesion funding.