Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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267. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the details of costings provided to his Department, in the context of the National Development Plan 2021-2030 review conducted earlier this year; and to provide a breakdown of each project and its projected cost in each of the years 2025 to 2030. [42722/24]

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 and for monitoring monthly expenditure at Departmental level. The responsibility for the management and delivery of individual investment projects or sectoral policy strategies, within the allocations agreed under the National Development Plan (NDP), rests with the individual sponsoring Department in each case. Each Minister is responsible for deciding on the priority programmes and projects that will be delivered under their remit within the NDP and for setting out the timelines for delivery.

The Government committed €165 billion towards capital investment through the National Development Plan (NDP) 2021-30 published in 2021. An additional €2.25 billion of windfall corporate tax receipts has also been allocated from 2024 to 2026, to provide funding for critical infrastructure projects that are at an advanced stage as well as to the existing Climate Action Fund.

Following the conclusion of more than 30 bilateral meetings which took place from January to March with my Ministerial colleagues, the distribution of the additional €2.25 billion across Departments for the period 2024-26 was agreed by Government. The breakdown of the allocations by sector was subsequently published in March 2024. This builds on the existing funding already available under the NDP out to 2026 and it will mean more schools, housing, transport and healthcare projects can be progressed and delivered for our people.

Preliminary details of expenditure allocations for 2025 are provided at programme level in the Budget Estimates for Public Service, these allocations will be finalised and published at subhead level, before the end of the year, in the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2025. Overall capital ceilings out to 2030 are set out in the NDP but a breakdown of expenditure by sector has not yet been set.

In relation to how the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform Group allocation was assigned across the capital spending Votes, the information is provided in the table below. The vast majority of capital funding in this Department's Vote Group is assigned to Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (OPW).