Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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67. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline the monies claimed by Ireland under the Recovery and Resilience Fund; the programmes the funding was expended on; the extent of remaining monies due to be drawn down and by which programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17814/25]

Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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Ireland will receive approximately €1.15 billion in funding from the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) in respect of measures included in our National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP). The programme period runs from 2021 to 2026.

The NRRP is pre-funded through the estimates process and the National Development Plan. RRF allocated funding is then recouped from the EU after the agreed milestones and targets within the Plan have been achieved and verified.

The RRF allocation will be paid to Ireland in five instalments. Following the successful submission of our first payment request, Ireland received €324m in July 2024 from the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility.

Ireland’s second payment request of €116m was submitted in December 2024, and is currently being assessed by the European Commission.

The payment schedule for Ireland’s plan is as follows:

It is important to note that payment under the RRF is contingent on the achievement of the milestones and targets.

The attached annex, provides a list of the all the projects within the NRRP, together with the lead Department and the indicative RRF allocations.