‘Education overspend baked into department budget’ TDs to hear

Department of Education officials to appear at Dáil committee on budgetary oversight to discuss the supplementary €646m it requested in March

The Department of Education will tell TDs its 2026 budget is €14.1bn, broken down with €12.4bn in current expenditure and €1.7bn in capital expenditure. Picture: iStock

A €646m overspend at the Department of Education is now a permanent part of its budget, TDs will be told today.

Officials from the department will appear before the Oireachtas committee on budgetary oversight to discuss a supplementary payment of €646m it requested in March, where they will address what it describes as a longstanding structural deficit.