Central Statistics Office
Ireland’s national statistics office.
The CSO compiles the general government accounts used on the revenue page. They use a different scope and accounting basis from the Exchequer’s cash returns.
Independent
Public finances
Departments and institutions
The Department of Finance (sometimes searched for as the Ministry of Finance) and the bodies around it. Each page separates the cost of running a department from the national finances it helps manage.
Who does what
Ask Dex about thisChoose an institution to see what it does, where its records are, and how it relates to the others. The links show who acts on whom, and in what way.
- Policy: sets the rules or direction
- Administration: runs something day to day
- Delivery: provides the service or does the work
- Regulation: supervises compliance with the law
- Audit: independently examines accounts after money is spent
- Scrutiny: questions, reviews or assesses, and reports publicly
- Department of Finance
- Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
- Revenue Commissioners
- National Treasury Management Agency
- Office of Government Procurement
- Tax Appeals Commission
- Central Bank of Ireland
- Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
- Comptroller and Auditor General
- Central Statistics Office
- Standards in Public Office Commission
- Parliamentary Budget Office
- Committee of Public Accounts
- Finance Committee
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight
- Service departments and delivery bodies
- Political parties
- Banks, insurers and other financial firms
Independent institutions, such as the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Fiscal Council, keep their independence: showing a relationship here does not mean one body directs another.
Department spending profiles
Departments and Vote groups, with their 2026 voted expenditure.
Social Protection
2026 voted expenditure: €28,944m across 2 Votes.
Health Group
2026 voted expenditure: €27,350m across 1 Vote.
Education and Youth
2026 voted expenditure: €13,455m across 1 Vote.
2026 voted expenditure: €11,394m across 4 Votes.
2026 voted expenditure: €7,069m across 2 Votes.
2026 voted expenditure: €6,338m across 7 Votes.
2026 voted expenditure: €5,045m across 2 Votes.
2026 voted expenditure: €4,761m across 1 Vote.
2026 voted expenditure: €2,317m across 1 Vote.
2026 voted expenditure: €2,150m across 8 Votes.
2026 voted expenditure: €1,551m across 1 Vote.
2026 voted expenditure: €1,492m across 2 Votes.
2026 voted expenditure: €1,391m across 1 Vote.
2026 voted expenditure: €1,350m across 2 Votes.
2026 voted expenditure: €1,068m across 1 Vote.
2026 voted expenditure: €758m across 4 Votes.
2026 voted expenditure: €613m across 1 Vote.
2026 voted expenditure: €338m across 6 Votes.