Vote 31: Transport Budget 2026 Net Grant

01 / WHAT THE GRANT COVERS

The financial authority behind Vote 31.

The Department of Transport's services, grants and selected transport and infrastructure responsibilities.

Approved net Exchequer supply grant

€4.740bn

This amount represents the net funding authorised in the Dáil's Revised Estimates resolution for Vote 31 for the year ending 31 December 2026. It is a ceiling on supply from the Exchequer, rather than a record of payments to final recipients.

Vote 31 is associated here with the Transport spending sector as a navigation aid. Departmental Votes and user-facing sectors do not necessarily have identical accounting boundaries.

02 / READ THE RIGHT NUMBER

Why the figure may differ from the sector total.

The spending atlas is based on gross public expenditure. The amount above is a net voted Exchequer supply grant. They describe different things and cannot be interchanged.

This Vote: €4.740bn

The 2026 Dáil-approved net supply-grant ceiling for this specified department or agency, under the 25 March resolution.

Sector: €4.8bn

The rounded transport sector gross expenditure estimate in the separate official sector dataset. It is not an amount paid from this Vote alone.

Current and capital

Operational costs and longer-lived investment can both be included in voted expenditure. This resolution provides the net grant, not an itemised, reconciled current/capital subhead table for this individual Vote.

Social insurance and non-voted items

Government expenditure can include spending from the Social Insurance Fund, the National Training Fund and direct Central Fund charges. Their treatment differs from ordinary annual Vote supply grants.

03 / THE OTHER VOTES

Compare net grant ceilings on the same basis.

The bars below use the same 2026 Dáil resolution, so they are a meaningful comparison of net grant authorisations. They are not comparisons of audited actual expenditure or an allocation of your tax.

Vote 38 · Health → €26.940bn

Vote 37 · Social Protection → €14.066bn

Explore all 37 Vote grants →

04 / SEE PROGRAMME-LEVEL REPORTING

What do more granular allocations tell us?

Our programme register identifies independently sourced 2026 funding announcements in related service areas. These figures are not automatically formal subheads of Vote 31, and may overlap with one another.

2026 departmental capital allocation Department of Transport capital envelope €3.43bn The Department of Transport announced €3.43 billion in capital funding for 2026, supporting long-term transport infrastructure such as roads, public transport and active travel. Read the accounting caveat → 2026 departmental current allocation Department of Transport current envelope €1.31bn The Department of Transport announced €1.31 billion in current funding for 2026, including road services, public transport operations and wider transport responsibilities. Read the accounting caveat → 2026 service allocation Public transport PSO services €940m A €940 million Public Service Obligation allocation helps subsidise bus and rail services and sustain access to public transport across Ireland. Read the accounting caveat → 2026 budget allocation Road networks and road safety €1.72bn The transport budget announced €1.72 billion for national, regional and local roads and road safety. Work ranges from maintenance and improvement to infrastructure projects. Read the accounting caveat → 2026 capital allocation Active travel and greenways €360m The government allocated €360 million for walking, cycling and greenway projects in 2026. Project and county allocations are published separately and can be tracked against this programme. Read the accounting caveat →

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05 / CHECK THE DOCUMENT

Exact source, exact definition.

Approval: Dáil Éireann Revised Estimates for Public Services 2026, resolution passed 25 March 2026; Vote 31.

Authorised net supply grant: €4.740bn. The original figure is €4,740,219,000; no estimate has been created by Compound.

Read the official Dáil resolution (Vote 31) →. Publication checked 2026-11-13.

The source supplies net grants and may separately authorise the application of unused capital appropriation. It does not establish all final outturns, all Vote subheads or a department-wide reconciled allocation hierarchy. See the Vote register's gross-versus-net explanation.