Peter Cleere (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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438. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the review of the National Development Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30454/25]

Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The Programme for Government sets out the clear ambition to prioritise the delivery of transformative, critical and growth-enhancing infrastructure over the next five years. To support these goals, Government has prioritised an early review of the National Development Plan, which is being led by my Department.

From February, officials in my Department set about identifying the parameters, priorities and critical milestones for the review. This was done to support the ambition of the review to improve our infrastructure, especially housing, water, energy, transport and health digitalisation.

In early April, I secured Government approval to commence the review process following which Departments were written to, to advise on the Government's approach to the review. The core focus of the review will be to ensure that supporting economic infrastructure can be prioritised to support the delivery of 300,000 additional homes and to boost our competitiveness.

Throughout April and early May, Departments prepared their funding submissions and this was followed by bilateral engagement between my Department and individual spending Departments to assess investment plans and programmes. This series of bilateral engagements commenced at official level and is currently continuing at ministerial level.

Engagement is continuing to identify specific sectoral priorities that can be supported within the available funding parameters. This is with a view to agreeing sector capital allocations to 2030 by July in order to support the priority infrastructure objectives set out in the Programme for Government and, in particular, the delivery of stated housing targets and to boost our competitiveness.

I have also launched a public consultation on the review which is open for submissions on my Department's website until 26 June. The consultation is an opportunity for individuals, Oireachtas Members or, indeed, organisations to share their views on national priorities for public capital investment. I will also be chairing a session on infrastructure prioritisation and delivery at the National Economic Dialogue, where interested stakeholders will have the opportunity to share their views on this topic of national importance.

John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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439. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the value of trade from the occupied territories in Israel from 2020 to 2024, in tabular form. [30153/25]

Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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The Central Statistics Office compiles statistical data in relation to Goods Exports and Imports. These statistics can be found on the website cso.ie.

The following table shows the value of trade with the occupied territories in Israel from 2020 to 2024.