Written answers

Wednesday, 17 September 2025

Department of Finance

Departmental Expenditure

Photo of Ken O'FlynnKen O'Flynn (Cork North-Central, Independent Ireland Party)
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316. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a full breakdown, by Department, of current expenditure overruns to date in 2025, including both voted and non-voted expenditure; and how these figures compare with the allocations approved in Budget 2025. [48392/25]

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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My Department publishes bi-annual fiscal projections as part of the Budget and Annual Progress Report (APR) publications. Non-Voted Exchequer spending projections are published on an aggregate level as part of these biannual publications and as such, the most recent projections available in this regard are as set out in the APR 2025, as published in April this year – and available at the following link:

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- 2025 2026
Non Voted Current Exchequer Expenditure €7.255 bn €7.940 bn
The Deputy may also be aware that my Department publishes the monthly Exchequer Statement as part of its ‘Fiscal Monitor’ publication every month. The most recent of these publications is the ‘August 2025 Fiscal Monitor’. This sets out the end-August outturn for Non-Voted Current Exchequer spending, which amounted to €5.214 billion, as detailed at the following link:

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Whilst my Department does not publish in-year profiles in respect of this category of Exchequer spending, our fiscal projections are currently being updated as part of the Budget 2026 process. As such, revised projections for overall Exchequer spending for 2025 and 2026 will be compiled as part of Budget 2026, and these will be made available as part of that publication, on 7th October.

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