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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.

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  • 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
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  • Scrutiny: questions, reviews or assesses, and reports publicly
  • Department of Finance
  • Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
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Service departments and delivery bodies

Spend voted money to deliver services such as health, education and housing.

Departments such as Health, Education and Housing spend the money the Dáil votes and answer for it to the Dáil and its committees.

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  • DeliveryDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation

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  • PolicyDepartment of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
  • DeliveryOffice of Government Procurement
  • AuditComptroller and Auditor General
  • ScrutinyCommittee of Public Accounts

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Department spending profiles

Departments and Vote groups, with their 2026 voted expenditure.

  • 2026 voted expenditure: €28,944m across 2 Votes.

  • 2026 voted expenditure: €27,350m across 1 Vote.

  • 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.

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