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)
The budgetary strategy we implemented this year will lead to a much-reduced risk next year in the four or five areas which have contributed to the scale of the Supplementary Estimates. These are the disability, transport, education, health and housing Votes. We doubled the current expenditure allocation for the Department of housing in budget 2026 compared to budget 2025. There was a €600 million allocation. That acknowledges the huge demand for homeless services, which it was important to respond to and for which we provided greater headroom and adequacy in budget 2026. We have significantly corrected the demand drivers which contribute to the scale of these Supplementary Estimates. I think they will be much reduced in the future. The focus has been on having adequacy and credibility in overall fiscal planning. I took that very seriously in the work I did-----
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