2026 REVISED ESTIMATES · NET SUPPLY GRANT
Vote 36: Defence
The Defence Forces' pay and operations, Defence Department administration and certain grants.
Exact legal authorisation in the Dáil resolution; not the same as money actually spent by the body in 2026.
01 / WHAT THE GRANT COVERS
The financial authority behind Vote 36.
The Defence Forces' pay and operations, Defence Department administration and certain grants.
Approved net Exchequer supply grant
€1.154bn
This amount represents the net funding authorised in the Dáil's Revised Estimates resolution for Vote 36 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 36 is associated here with the Additional departments 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: €1.154bn
The 2026 Dáil-approved net supply-grant ceiling for this specified department or agency, under the 25 March resolution.
Sector: €25.1bn
The rounded additional departments 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.
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 36, and may overlap with one another.
No programme figure has been linked directly to this Vote at the same accounting scope. It would be misleading to infer one from the sector total.
05 / CHECK THE DOCUMENT
Exact source, exact definition.
Approval: Dáil Éireann Revised Estimates for Public Services 2026, resolution passed 25 March 2026; Vote 36.
Authorised net supply grant: €1.154bn. The original figure is €1,154,067,000; no estimate has been created by Compound.
Read the official Dáil resolution (Vote 36) →. 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.