56. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to give an update on the impact of Budget 2027 on infrastructure investment in the west of Ireland. [74677/26]

As part of the budgetary process each year, my Department sets overall expenditure ceilings for each Ministerial Vote Group. These are laid out at Vote level in the Budget Day Expenditure Report published in October with further detail provided in the Revised Estimates for Public Services published in December.

Following the allocation of each Ministerial Expenditure Ceiling, it is a matter for each Minister to assign funding as appropriate at programme and subhead level for their Departments and the agencies under their remit, accounting for the demands for services in different areas and regions and having regard to demographics and other relevant factors. Within this process, both current and capital expenditure are allocated on a Departmental basis and not a geographic basis.

More broadly, the achievement of balanced regional development is a key priority of this Government and is at the heart of Project Ireland 2040, which includes the National Planning Framework (NPF), which sets out the overarching spatial strategy for the next twenty years, along with the National Development Plan.

Since Project Ireland 2040 was first launched in 2018, the Government has overseen the delivery of many impactful NDP projects across the country, including the West of Ireland – for example Enterprise Centres in Boyle and Tulsk in Roscommon and in Belmullet and Swinford in Mayo, the N59 Moycullen Bypass, the ongoing N5 Ballaghaderreen to Scramoge upgrade, the Salmon Weir Bridge in Galway and the Killaloe Bypass in Clare, and heritage and tourism projects in Portumna in Galway and Aghleam in Mayo.

The NDP Review 2025 was published on Tuesday, 22 July 2025, in line with the Programme for Government commitment. The Plan committed €275.4billion in public capital investment to 2035 – the largest and most significant capital injection in our economy in the history of the State.

Arising from this, €20.3 billion in Exchequer capital investment will be provided in 2027.

Over the end of 2025 and early 2026, individual Ministers developed sectoral level plans, for priority investment programmes and projects within their additional capital allocations for delivery across the country. Considering sectoral needs and Ministerial decisions, these plans reflect Government priorities, including the National Planning Framework commitment to balanced regional development.

The plans published to date include planned investment and projects across the country, including a range of projects in the West of Ireland such as:

• Uisce Éireann upgrades of water and wastewater treatment plans in Lough Mast and Claremorris in Mayo;

• 35 social and 310 affordable new housing units in Crowne Square in Galway;

• New transport infrastructure with Bus Connects Galway, the Galway City Ring Road and the N5 in Roscommon; and

• Sports and community facilities with the Renville Sports and Community Centre and the East Galway Sports Campus.

These sectoral plans are available on each Departmental website and will provide the Deputy with further detail on a sectoral basis.

The NDP Construction Pipeline collates these projects and is also available as a central resource on gov.ie.