Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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348. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plan for the management of the NDP rollout and breaking into project financing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47675/25]

Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The National Development Plan (NDP) Review 2025 was published on Tuesday, 22 July 2025, in line with the Programme for Government commitment.

The review provides us with the potential to completely transform our built environment through permanent, sustained and sustainable interventions focused on the medium and long-term health of our economy and our country.

Government has set out annual sectoral allocations for 2026 to 2030, and overall Government capital expenditure ceilings to 2035. This leads to a total public capital investment of €275.4 billion over the period to 2035. This comprises €202.4 billion in Exchequer Voted capital expenditure from 2026 to 2035.

Of this, €102.4 billion is being allocated for the next five years – an additional €23.9 billion on what was previously allocated in the NDP. In addition to the Exchequer allocations, €10 billion in equity and fund releases has been provided for megaprojects in water, energy and transport for the period to 2030. Specifically:

• €3.5 billion in equity funding is being provided to ESB and Eirgrid in 2025 to fund enhanced energy grid capacity to support the Government's housing and competitiveness objectives.
• €2 billion in equity funding is being provided to Uisce Éireann in 2025 to enable the delivery of 300,000 additional homes.
• A further €2.5 billion in funding is being provided to Uisce Éireann to commence the Greater Dublin Drainage and Water Supply Project over the period to 2030.
• €2 billion from the Infrastructure Climate and Nature Fund is being allocated to low-carbon transportation, such as MetroLink.

Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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349. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to detail his engagement with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage and Uisce Éireann from a point of view of delivering on infrastructural deficits through the NDP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47676/25]

Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The Programme for Government prioritised an early review of the National Development Plan (NDP), with the objective of improving our infrastructure, especially housing, energy, water and transport. Improvements to these sectors of economic infrastructure is necessary to enable the delivery of 300,000 additional homes by 2030 and to boost our competitiveness.

A series of bilateral engagements took place from May to July at Official and Ministerial level to assess Departments’ capital investment plans and programmes, including the bodies under their aegis, with a view to informing the annual sectoral allocations provided in the published NDP Review.

Following NDP engagements, DHLGH will receive a total capital allocation of approximately €36 billion from 2026 to 2030. A further €4.5 billion of non-voted funding will be made available to Uisce Éireann—comprising €2 billion in equity to support housing delivery and €2.5 billion for major strategic projects such as the Greater Dublin Drainage (GDD) and the Water Supply Project (WSP).

In total the water sector will benefit from approximately €12.2 billion in capital investment over the period 2026–2030, with the remaining over €28 billion for other housing and related infrastructure — reflecting a strong commitment to addressing infrastructural needs in line with national priorities. This Department remains committed to working collaboratively to ensure that infrastructure investment continues to support sustainable housing delivery and the broader objectives of Project Ireland 2040.

*Please note this is a replicate reply to the same question which was previously answered on 29/07/2025 (Reference No: 43509/25)*