Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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514.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of a 10 percent increase in the funding for the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service, in tabular form. [33381/24]

Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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516.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of increasing the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service budget by 5, 10 and 20 percent respectively, in tabular form. [33385/24]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 514 and 516 together.

The Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service (IGEES) is a cross-Departmental network of Civil Service economists and policy analysts working directly for their respective Departments. IGEES consists of persons recruited through the IGEES recruitment stream and other Civil Servants in policy analysis roles.

The IGEES budget is managed by the IGEES Corporate Support Unit, which has responsibility for IGEES strategy and corporate operations, and is based in the Department of Public Expenditure NDP Delivery and Reform.

The IGEES budget, as set out in the DPENDR section of the annually published Revised Estimates, relates to annual allocations to fund the corporate operations of the IGEES network. These activities include recruitment, training (L&D), research funding and other corporate support activities for the network of approximately 200 IGEES analysts across the civil service. Decisions in respect of the IGEES budget form part of the estimates process for DPENDR.

The IGEES CSU budget for 2024 is €225,000.

It is relevant to note that this does not include staff remuneration, as this is accounted for under general staffing costs in respective Departments.

% of IGEES CSU Budget (2024 Base)