Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 5 November 2024
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (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)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Supplementary)
1:10 pm
Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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The best thing is if I guide the Deputy through the four projects because she will get a good appreciation of them.
First is the original project, which is Backweston. That is an €80 million project, of which €40 million is coming from the EU fund. It started in March 2023 and will be completed in May 2025. It is on time and on budget. In terms of the way the funding came, in the 2023 Estimates, just over €80 million came from the national recovery and resilience fund from Europe. In the Estimates for 2024, €30.664 million was provided. A further €20.336 million is now being provided through the national recovery and resilience fund through the Supplementary Estimates. In 2025, €8.227 million is in the Estimates. There will be a balance of retention in 2026 of €2.391 million, which is the full €80 million.
The refurbishment of 6 Ely Place started in August. It will be completed in late 2025, with a total cost of €35.936 million. Exchequer funding amounts to €20.936 million. Funding of €15 million is coming from Europe through RePower EU. The way that is being funded today is €6 million is coming through the Supplementary Estimates now. That is the first allocation to that project. In the 2025 Estimates, €12.692 million is coming. A further €9 million will come through RePower EU in 2025 and a balance of funding is coming in 2026 from the Exchequer of €7.659 million, which amounts to just under €36 million.