Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform I am responsible for the allocation and management of voted expenditure across Departments and for monitoring monthly expenditure at Departmental level. The responsibility for the management and delivery of individual investment projects, within the allocations agreed under the National Development Plan 2021-30 (NDP), rests with the individual sponsoring Department in each case.

The information the Deputy is requesting is contained in the Investment Projects and Programmes Tracker which is publicly available on www.gov.ie/2040. The Tracker draws from data provided by relevant Government Departments and agencies and focuses mainly on projects and programmes with costs greater than €20 million. The data is a snapshot in time and reflects the situation at the time of publication in February 2023. The tracker includes comprehensive details on almost 320 large scale projects and 140 individual programmes.

The Tracker contains project updates detailing a considerable amount of information, for example the Tracker provides a brief outline of the project; the Department or Body responsible for delivering the project; the location and region of the project; the type of investment which links it to specific sectors; the alignment of the project with the National Planning Framework’s 10 National Strategic Outcomes; the current status of the project; the construction commencement date of the project; the completion or anticipated completion date of the project; the current stage of the project lifecycle and finally, there is also information on the project cost range.

Officials in my Department are currently liaising with their counterparts in other Departments to update the data contained in the Tracker with a view to publishing the updated data in the coming weeks.