Ivana Bacik (Dublin Bay South, Labour)
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322. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the national economic dialogue. [35902/25]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The 2025 National Economic Dialogue (NED), took place on Monday June 16 in Dublin Castle. There were over 280 delegates from over 90 different organisations that took part in the event which was chaired by Professor Carol Newman of Trinity College Dublin. The theme for the dialogue was “medium-term budgetary planning against a rapidly changing global backdrop”.

The NED provides a deliberative forum for participants to engage in an open and inclusive exchange on the competing economic and social goals of the Government and is an important part of the pre-budgetary planning.

This year included a presentation from the director of Bruegel, Jeromin Zettelmeyer and the recording of this and the morning plenary session is available on gov.ie/ned. The programme for the full day, including the seven breakout sessions chaired by Government Ministers is also available there along with the detailed papers that informed the discussions on the day.

Dedicated rapportuers from academia are drafting reports from each of the seven sessions and will be included with a summary by the Chair, Professor Newman over the summer months. This will be uploaded to the same site.

The event was very valuable to Ministers in gathering a diverse range of views from stakeholders representing different strands of Irish society on the choices that are available to the Government in the framing of Budget 2026.