Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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285. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide in tabular form a list of all major public projects with an estimated cost of over €200 million at any stage of development; a list of all major projects with an estimated cost between €100 million and €200 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22545/23]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform I am responsible for setting the overall capital allocations across Departments. Management and delivery of individual investment projects within the allocations agreed under the National Development Plan (NDP) is a key responsibility of every Department and Minister.

The Government is committed to detailing progress on the delivery of the NDP at regular intervals into the future to allow for full transparency of the implementation of Project Ireland 2040. This is achieved through regular updates of the Project Ireland 2040 capital investment tracker and MyProjectIreland interactive map viewer which list projects and programmes on a regional and county level. These datasets list the stage of the project lifecycle from strategic assessment to completion, thereby allowing the users to see what projects are planned, in construction or completed for each county and region.

The capital tracker and interactive map are key tools in overseeing the progress of Project Ireland 2040. The latest editions of the Project Ireland 2040 capital investment tracker and interactive map, were published on the gov.ie website in February 2023. The tracker includes comprehensive details on almost 320 large scale projects and 140 individual programmes, while the interactive map database includes an overview of 1,240 individual projects.

The table below is an extract from the capital tracker February 2023 edition and is drawn from data provided by relevant Government Departments and agencies. The data in the table contains details of both projects and programmes with a value in excess of €100 million, it also lists the name of the Department or body responsible for delivering the project or programme. Estimated project costs are presented in the tracker in the form of specified cost ranges including the category €100m-€250m - the exact category of €100m-€200m sought by the Deputy is not available. For completeness, I have also included projects where costs are not currently available or subject to appraisal, however, it should be noted that some of these projects may not fall within the cost range requested by the Deputy. It also must be clarified that a number of the bigger programmes listed below (some of those from €500m-€1 billion and €1 billion+) will consist of projects falling into the €100m-€200m category. Programmes such as Bus Connects, Dart+, the Urban Regeneration and Regeneration Fund and National Road and Rail Programmes consist of individual projects that potentially will fall into these ranges at pre-tender and final business case stages.

Extract from February 2023 edition of Capital Investment Tracker

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