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)
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We absolutely have, and that is why the medium-term expenditure framework has been fundamental to future budgetary planning. There were significant in-year pressures which it was important for the Government to respond to and which informed the budgetary process for next year in terms of the gaps that arose in certain demand-driven areas. Whether in health, housing or education, there were additional pressures. We sought in budget 2026 to stabilise those areas in the context of the expenditure drivers, which have been clear in the look-back exercise.