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Spending Review 2022
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Ó: An Roinn Caiteachais Phoiblí, Seachadta ar an bPlean Forbartha Náisiúnta, agus Athchóirithe
- Foilsithe: 16 Lúnasa 2022
- An t-eolas is déanaí: 12 Aibreán 2025
- Executive Summaries
- Agriculture
- Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Environment, Climate and Communications
- Foreign Affairs
- Further and Higher Education
- Health
- Housing and Property
- Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform
- Rural and Community Development
- Social Protection
- Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
The Spending Review process aims to facilitate the development of policy analysis and evaluation in support of the service-wide agenda of evidence-informed policy making.
See the Spending Reviews for previous years.
More information on the Spending Review process can be found here.
Executive Summaries
Agriculture
Review of the Beef Data Genomics Programme 2015 - 2021
This paper provides an update on a 2019 Spending Review of the Beef Data Genomics Programme - with analysis of trends in Key Performance indicators since 2015 to evaluate whether the scheme has continued to improve the genetic merit of the national beef herd and lower the intensity of Greenhouse Gas emissions of beef output, as well as projecting potential longer-term effects.
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Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Spending Review: The Irish Governments Expenditure on Children in 2019
A pilot study of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs - This paper is a pilot examination of the spending of the Irish Government on children, by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs in 2019. It is a first step in, what we see as, a long-term process of understanding whether expenditure is sufficient to adequately meet the needs of children, now and into the future.
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Spending Review: Tusla Funded Community and Voluntary Sector Family Support Services
This Spending Review of Tusla-funded Community & Voluntary sector Family Support Services presents the high-level results of a comprehensive analysis conducted by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration, and Youth and focuses on the FSS policy landscape, Tusla’s model for FSS commissioning and governance, and trends in FSS expenditure in recent years. The Review also presents the key FSS cost drivers, as well as supply and demand indicators. The Review concludes with recommendations to help strengthen monitoring and evaluation processes.
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Slides: Tusla Funded Community and Voluntary Sector Family Support Services
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Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Environment, Climate and Communications
Estimating the Potential Cost of Compliance with 2030 Climate and Energy Targets
This paper is a first attempt at estimating costs of compliance associated with Ireland’s EU climate targets. It presents the potential Exchequer implications should Ireland fail to make sufficient progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. These compliance costs, coupled with the environmental science, highlight the importance of implementing the measures in the Climate Action Plan 2023.
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Slides - Estimating the Potential Cost of Compliance with 2030 Climate and Energy Targets
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Landfill Remediation Grant Scheme
This paper examines the Landfill Remediation Grant Scheme, and recommends on future scheme design to ensure its effectiveness and efficiency are better understood.
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Foreign Affairs
Ireland's Humanitarian Support to UN Pooled Funds - Part A
The purpose of this spending review is to provide a contextual analysis of the global humanitarian situation, a policy overview, and an expenditure analysis of Ireland's contributions to the UN pooled funds for the period 2017 - 2021
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Further and Higher Education
Demographics in the Higher Education Sector
This paper examines updated full-time student demographic projections for Higher Education and calculates the funding implications associated with these updated projections.
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Health
Hospital Performance - An Analysis of HSE Key Performance Indicators
This work provides a data driven assessment of hospital performance relative to specified metrics that form part of the HSE National Service Plan and Management Data Reporting structures. This will further enable active management of hospital performance across the healthcare system, allowing policymakers and practitioners to identify investment needs and best practices and take remediatory action to improve clinical and economic outcomes.
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Slides - Hospital Performance - An Analysis of HSE Key Performance Indicators
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Towards Population-Based funding for Health: Model Proposal
PBRA is a funding model for health planning that seeks to distribute available healthcare resources according to population need to promote efficiency and equity in both health outcomes and distribution of resources. This paper provides a preliminary PBRA model for implementation and provides indicative results.
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An Analysis of Medical Workforce Supply
This Spending Review describes the medical education and training system in Ireland and examines some of the challenges facing the health system in meeting the WHO-GCP commitment to reduce Ireland's reliance on the foreign educated medical workforce and in achieving a Consultant Delivered health service. The paper highlights that a long timeframe is required to increase medical education and training places, and that these places need to be carefully aligned to ensure the optimal pathway from student to consultant. Even with large-scale increases in medical degree student intake in the short term, reducing Ireland's reliance on the foreign educated medical workforce will be a long-term endeavour.
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Towards Population-Based Funding for Health- Evidence Review and Regional Profiles
The Irish healthcare system is undergoing substantial reform with a commitment to implement new Regional Health Areas and a Population-Based Resource Allocation (PBRA) by 2024. PBRA is a funding model for health planning that seeks to distribute available healthcare resources according to population need to promote efficiency and equity in both health outcomes and distribution of resources. This Spending Review contributes to the evidence required to support decision-making on the most appropriate PBRA model to implement.
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Review of the Long Term Illness Scheme
An analysis of the main expenditure drivers of the Long Term Illness scheme that also contextualises the aim and rationale of the scheme within the current community pharmacy scheme landscape in Ireland.
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Healthcare Capital Investment in Ireland: An Analysis of Healthcare Infrastructure Capacity
This paper provides an analysis of healthcare infrastructure as it relates to service capacity, such as beds and radiological equipment by region. The authors find that healthcare infrastructure capacity varies by Regional Health Area, implying uneven access to care and motivating considerations around the spread of planned investment. The analysis provided in this paper provides the groundwork for evidence-based prioritization of infrastructure projects facilitated by the upcoming Strategic Healthcare Investment Framework (SHIF).
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Slides - Healthcare Capital Investment in Ireland: An Analysis of Healthcare Infrastructure Capacity
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Healthcare Capital Investment in Ireland: An Analysis of Built Healthcare Infrastructure
This paper provides an analysis of the physical infrastructure within the HSE Acute and Community care settings. The analysis presents an overview of the condition, quality, energy efficiency, maintenance requirements and functional suitability of the HSE Estate for both the Community and Acute Care settings which can be used to inform future healthcare infrastructure investment on the basis of all areas considered.
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Slides - Healthcare Capital Investment in Ireland: An Analysis of Built Healthcare Infrastructure
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Spending Review 2022: A System Dynamics Model of Nursing and Midwifery Workforce Supply
Spending Review 2022: A System Dynamics Model of Nursing and Midwifery Workforce Supply
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Housing and Property
An Assessment of the Balance of Current and Capital Expenditure - OPW Estate Management Portfolio
This paper sets out an overview of the OPW Estate Portfolio and considers the balance between current and capital investment for providing office accommodation. The paper evaluates the relative long-term cost of these potential delivery options across a number of case studies and provides an evidence base to contribute to future decision-making on the selection of the most cost-effective and suitable office accommodation solutions.
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Slides - An Assessment of the Balance of Current and Capital Expenditure - OPW Estate Management Portfolio
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Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform
Spending Review: An Analysis of Own Resource Income within Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland
This paper provides a high level descriptive analysis of Own Resource Income being generated by the enterprise agencies Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland.
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Slides: An Analysis of Own Resource Income within Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland
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The Public Spending Code - Planning, Appraisal and Managing Capital Investment Programmes
This paper aims to assess appraisal and planning guidance for capital investment programmes used in other jurisdictions and identify shortcomings in the existing Public Spending Code guidance. The paper sets out a number of recommended guidance updates for each stage of the existing Public Spending Code project lifecycle.
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Slides: The Public Spending Code - Planning, Appraisal and Managing Capital Investment Programmes
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Characteristics of and use of selected supports by people with disabilities and special education needs aged 16-35 in Ireland
This paper examines the education, employment and income characteristics of people aged 16 to 35 with disabilities and special educational needs and also provides an overview of selected supports that are available to this cohort with the aim of contribution towards the evidence base aimed at improving outcomes for people with disabilities.
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Slides: Characteristics of and use of selected supports by people with disabilities and special education needs aged 16-35 in Ireland
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A Review of Transport Infrastructure Ireland
This paper provides an overview and examination of Transport Infrastructure Ireland, in order to inform future discussions regarding resourcing and Exchequer funding. The aim of the paper is to provide an overview of TII’s rationale for existence; examine trends in TII’s staffing and finances; and examine TII’s performance indicators to determine how output compares to the objectives set by the agency.
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Estimating the Potential Cost of Compliance with 2030 Climate and Energy Targets
This paper is a first attempt at estimating costs of compliance associated with Ireland’s EU climate targets. It presents the potential Exchequer implications should Ireland fail to make sufficient progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. These compliance costs, coupled with the environmental science, highlight the importance of implementing the measures in the Climate Action Plan 2023.
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Slides - Estimating the Potential Cost of Compliance with 2030 Climate and Energy Targets
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Rural and Community Development
Focused Policy Assessment: DRCD Library Funding Supports
The spending review on DRCD funding for library supports outlines the outputs and impacts of that investment, and sets out recommendation on how future investment can best support the next libraries strategy and ensure the impacts of funding are better understood.
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Social Protection
Spending Review: Labour Market Trends-An Analysis of the Transition of PUP Recipients to Jobseeker's Payments
This paper aims to provide an overview of the extent of the transitions from the PUP to the Live Register during the scaling down of the scheme in 2021 and 2022 and also to provide insights into the characteristics of the former PUP recipients, and the potential long-term labour market impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Slides: Labour Market Trends - An Analysis of the Transition of PUP Recipients to Jobseeker's Payments
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Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Focused Policy Assessment The Distributive Efficiency of the Sports Capital and Equipment Programme (SCEP)
This paper aims to assess the distributive efficiency of the Sports Capital and Equipment Programme (SCEP) by reviewing the policy context for the SCEP and analysing the trends in SCEP applications and grants awarded, to determine if the SCEP is providing funding to the areas targeted by the National Sports Policy. This analysis will also identify any learnings, which may be used to improve the Department’s appraisal, management and delivery of the SCEP.
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Slides - The Distributive Efficiency of the Sports Capital and Equipment Programme (SCEP)
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