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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It is costing that. It is coming in on budget and on time. Work commenced on the Distillers Building in Smithfield in July 2024. It will be completed in August 2025. It is a €60 million project. The Exchequer provided €9.5 million in the Estimates for 2024. We are providing a further €7 million in the Supplementary Estimates. There will be €36 million through the Estimates in 2025, and then a balance of €7.5 million will come in the 2026 Estimates, which is €60 million. That is all Exchequer funding.
Leeson Lane is a €50.064 million project. That is the budget. It is on budget and on time. It started in 2023 and will be finished at the end of this year. A total of €30.853 million was funded through the resilience fund from the EU. The 2024 Estimates were €12.1 million. A further €7 million is being provided through the Supplementary Estimates now, which comes to the full €50 million. It is on time and on budget. I have looked at those four projects and how they were funded. All four are on budget and on time.