Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
2:00 am
Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
A significant increase in the cost of laboratory consumables and laboratory equipment service contracts arose and much of this work is operational in the State Laboratory. From what I have been told, there was an unforeseen essential IT project which is a core part of its wider work as a State Laboratory. Much of that is demand-driven and that was reflected in the additional Supplementary Estimate.
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