Ken O'Flynn (Cork North-Central, Independent Ireland Party)
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302. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total estimated cost to the Exchequer associated with the recent renaming and rebranding of his Department including but not limited to cost categories (details supplied); the breakdown of the incurred or projected costs; and if a cost-benefit analysis or any assessment of public value was carried out prior to approving these changes. [31371/25]

Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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In outlining the members of the Government in the Dáil on 23 January, 2025, the Taoiseach announced that I would be appointed as Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation. I wish to advise the Deputy that the Taoiseach signed the Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2025 at the Government meeting on 4 June, 2025. This Order gave legal effect to the change of my Department’s name from 5 June, 2025 and the Order has since been laid before the Oireachtas. There has been no cost incurred by the Department to-date in respect of this name change and it is not envisaged that any significant costs will arise in this regard going forward.

In respect of the Details Supplied by the Deputy, I can advise as follows:

•Due to the nature of its role, the Department does not have a large number of office locations and there will only be limited costs in respect of signage at the Department’s main offices in the Government Buildings complex and one other location;

•Regarding the printing of official stationary such as headed paper, no costs have been incurred to-date and it is not envisaged that significant costs will arise as the majority of correspondence is now issued using eLetterhead templates, which have been updated at no cost;

•Regarding the updates to digital infrastructure, there was no cost associated with updating the Department’s logo and associated templates, as this work was undertaken by the Government Information Service in the Department of the Taoiseach. The only changes to the Department’s website on gov.ie were the updating of the name and logo and this work was done internally within the Department. There are also no costs associated with domain name alterations, changes to e-mail or related matters. With regard to modification of publications, new publications will use the new logo at no cost and no retrospective rebranding will occur. The Department’s social media outlets have already advertised the name change at no cost and there will be no public information campaign.

In summary, the name change announced by the Taoiseach has not incurred any costs to my Department to date and I can assure the Deputy that any future costs associated with it will be minimal. I am happy to write to the Deputy when work is complete to advise him of the final cost.