AGRICULTURE VOTE 30 · SUBHEAD C.3 · REV 2026
Research, Quality and Certification: Ireland's 2026 spending allocation
Research, quality and certification spending is separately identifiable here, distinct from programme laboratory funding and grants to Teagasc.
Vote 30 · Programme C. Amounts are official €000 estimates converted to millions and are not final outturns.
01 / WHAT THIS BUDGET MEANS
The official C.3 subhead.
Research, quality and certification spending is separately identifiable here, distinct from programme laboratory funding and grants to Teagasc.
2026 public funding estimate
€28.910m
Accounting home: Vote 30 Agriculture, Food and the Marine → Programme C (Policy and Strategy) → Subhead C.3.
Unlike a broad departmental Budget announcement, this amount appears as a coded subhead in the official Revised Estimates table. The figure is part of the programme total, not an extra amount to add above it.
02 / YEAR-ON-YEAR COMPARISON
What changed in the official estimates?
This comparison is directly from the Department's 2026 Oireachtas committee tables, preserving the different accounting status of the two years.
| Period | Official amount | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €39.895m | Supplementary Estimate |
| 2026 | €28.910m | Revised Estimate |
| Change | €-10.985m | Comparison of Estimates |
Percentage change from the 2025 supplementary estimate: -27.53%. The data does not establish the same percentage change in actual expenditure.
03 / FOLLOW THE FUNDING
Explore the parent programme and other subheads.
All line items are included once in their programme totals. View the whole table to compare staff costs, schemes and grants without double-counting.
Original source and provenance
2026 Revised Estimates, Minister for Agriculture opening statement to Oireachtas Select Committee on 25 February 2026, tables 1–4. The source provides this subhead's code and the 2025 and 2026 line amounts in €000.
View the Oireachtas source document →. Last verified 2026-11-13. Compound reproduces the figures as its own accessible charts and tables; the document is supplied for verification.