Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy for the question. Expenditure Report 2024, published on budget day included budget Estimates. These budget Estimates for public services set out the allocations for the following year for each Vote at programme level. This represents a high-level summary of the budget and allocations for the following year. The Revised Estimates Volume for Public Service, REV 2024, outlines further information setting out the detail of allocations under each programme at subhead level. It also outlines the high-level goal of each programme and the public service numbers related to each subhead line. The Estimates are also supplemented with key performance information regarding outputs, context and economic indicators for each programme. In line with usual practice, it is expected that the REV 2024 will be published in mid-December. This publication date of the Revised Estimates Volume for Public Services allows for consideration of the Estimates by the relevant Dáil select committees at an early stage in 2024.

On the final question put by the Deputy to me regarding the Supplementary Estimate for the Department of Health for this year, for which there will be one and which I have acknowledged, my officials are working on that with the Department of Health at the moment and I hope to be in a position to give a clearer answer on that matter once we are clear on where we stand at the end of October. I am not in a position to give an accurate answer here today to the Deputy.

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