Gross sector figures
The official 2026 public spending explorer shows approximately €133bn of gross voted and non-voted expenditure, grouped into eight user-facing sectors.
THE ACCOUNTING LAYER · 2026
What did the Dáil authorise each government Vote to draw?
A different lens on the Irish budget: 37 exact 2026 net Exchequer supply-grant ceilings taken from the Dáil's approved Revised Estimates resolution of 25 March 2026.
Voted estimates recorded37
Detailed vote explainers17
Type of financial figureNet supply grant
These are supply-grant authorisations, not actual 2026 expenditure or the complete gross spending budget. Some Votes were approved separately and are not in this particular resolution.
NEW · ACTUAL EXPENDITURE SUBHEADS
Explore Agriculture Vote 30 down to 34 separately coded 2026 line items, reconciled to four programme totals, Appropriations-in-Aid and the net Vote.
Open the Agriculture Vote 30 subhead breakdown →01 / LARGEST SUPPLY GRANTS
The largest 2026 net Votes.
The bars compare the 12 largest authorisations within this Dáil resolution. They do not represent all €133bn of gross public spending.
02 / SOURCE-LINKED VOTE REGISTER
Search every Vote in the resolution.
Choose a department or agency. The 17 detailed pages explain their Vote, sector context, related programmes and limitations; other entries are available in this full source-linked register.
37 Votes
| Vote | Department / body | Sector index | Net supply grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | President's Establishment → | Additional departments | €6.198m |
| 2 | Department of the Taoiseach | Additional departments | €36.290m |
| 3 | Office of the Attorney General | Additional departments | €30.709m |
| 4 | Central Statistics Office | Additional departments | €116.053m |
| 5 | Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions | Justice | €82.119m |
| 6 | Office of the Chief State Solicitor | Additional departments | €59.881m |
| 7 | Office of the Minister for Finance | Additional departments | €58.165m |
| 8 | Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General | Additional departments | €12.349m |
| 9 | Office of the Revenue Commissioners → | Additional departments | €610.728m |
| 10 | Tax Appeals Commission | Additional departments | €4.090m |
| 13 | Office of Public Works → | Additional departments | €801.313m |
| 16 | Tailte Éireann | Additional departments | €100.872m |
| 20 | Garda Síochána → | Justice | €2.619bn |
| 21 | Prisons → | Justice | €569.122m |
| 22 | Courts Service → | Justice | €180.459m |
| 23 | An Coimisiún Toghcháin | Additional departments | €11.940m |
| 24 | Justice, Home Affairs and Migration → | Justice | €2.614bn |
| 25 | Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission | Justice | €10.483m |
| 27 | International Co-operation | Additional departments | €865.199m |
| 28 | Foreign Affairs and Trade | Additional departments | €414.027m |
| 29 | Climate, Energy and the Environment → | Additional departments | €1.061bn |
| 30 | Agriculture, Food and the Marine → | Additional departments | €1.818bn |
| 31 | Transport → | Transport | €4.740bn |
| 32 | Enterprise, Tourism and Employment | Additional departments | €1.308bn |
| 33 | Culture, Communications and Sport | Additional departments | €1.327bn |
| 34 | Housing, Local Government and Heritage → | Housing | €8.946bn |
| 35 | Army Pensions | Additional departments | €312.477m |
| 36 | Defence → | Additional departments | €1.154bn |
| 37 | Social Protection → | Social protection | €14.066bn |
| 38 | Health → | Health | €26.940bn |
| 39 | Uisce Éireann → | Housing | €2.250bn |
| 40 | Children, Disability and Equality → | Additional departments | €7.032bn |
| 41 | Policing and Community Safety Authority | Justice | €6.546m |
| 42 | Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht | Additional departments | €576.767m |
| 43 | Data Protection Commission | Additional departments | €32.763m |
| 44 | Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science → | Additional departments | €3.799bn |
| 45 | Fiosrú | Justice | €24.205m |
Official approved Revised Estimates resolution (Dáil, 25 March 2026) →. This resolution covers Votes 1–10, 13, 16, 20–25 and 27–45; it does not cover every Vote number, so omitted Votes are not treated as zero.
03 / WHY TWO NUMBERS CAN BOTH BE CORRECT
Net supply grants are not gross sector spending.
The 37 Votes are legal spending authorisations in a defined parliamentary resolution. The broad sector figures elsewhere on Compound also include funding recorded through other channels.
Net voted grants
Parliament votes net Exchequer supply requirements, with appropriations-in-aid and Social Insurance Fund arrangements affecting the relationship to gross programme totals.
Example: Social Protection
Vote 37: €14.066bn net grant. The broader social-protection category is €28.9bn gross. They have different accounting definitions, so the difference must not be casually labelled as an exact PRSI total.
Programme records
Our programme allocation explorer covers 49 specific funding statements and projections. Some are nested inside votes or each other; we never add overlapping allocations to the net grants.
Data status and exclusions
The original Dáil resolution is dated 25 March 2026 and records limits on Exchequer supply grants. It is not a cash-spending return or a complete list of all current and capital subheads. Separate vote approvals, extra capital carryover authorisations and in-year revised/supplementary estimates may exist. The register is a fixed snapshot of that resolution rather than a continuously reconciled 2026 total.
Verified 2026-11-13. The supporting financial definitions are explained by the Parliamentary Budget Office's Revised Estimates analysis.