Shay Brennan (Dublin Rathdown, Fianna Fail)
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50. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which public expenditure to date in 2025 compares to the same period in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39790/25]

Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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€106.4 billion in gross voted funding is being provided in 2025 to deliver on Government priorities and commitments, including continuing the delivery of a National Development Plan (NDP) which is providing the vital infrastructure we need to support our future economic and social progress.

This funding is also providing appropriate income supports for better outcomes in tackling poverty for children and families, people of working age, including jobseekers, people with disabilities, carers, and older people. It is providing for the opening of new hospital and community beds, additional funding for Older Persons Mental Health services and Social Inclusion, and additional training places to enhance capacity across the front-line workforce of our Health Service.

With regards to public expenditure to date in 2025 compared to the same period in 2024, the latest available expenditure figures, covering the period to end June, were published in the Department of Finance’s Fiscal Monitor on the 3^rd of July 2025. This release provides detail of the gross and net voted expenditure position to end June, comparing the drawdown of funds to profiled (planned) monthly expenditure, and to the corresponding period last year. These are broken down by Vote group and into capital and current spending.

The End-June figures demonstrate sustained high levels of investment in the delivery of public services at this critical time for our economy and for global trade. Total gross voted expenditure to end-June 2025 amounted to €50.9bn: this was €3.8bn or 8.2% higher than the end-June position in 2024.

Gross voted current expenditure at end June was €45.1bn; this was €2.8bn or 6.5% higher than the end-June position in 2024. Gross voted capital expenditure at end-June was €5.8bn: this was €1.1bn or 22.5% higher than the end-June position in 2024.

Overall spending of €50.9bn is broadly in-line with the amount profiled by departments to be spent at this stage in the year, with an overspend of 0.7% against profile. This increased investment reflects the priorities of Budget 2025 and this government’s commitment to deliver continued improvements in our infrastructure and enhance our existing public services to build for a stronger future