{"id":450083,"date":"2026-05-15T11:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/450083\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:09:10","slug":"ireland-to-receive-latest-e249m-payment-under-eu-recovery-and-resilience-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/450083\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland to receive latest \u20ac249m payment under EU Recovery and Resilience Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ireland will receives its fourth payment under the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF)<\/a> worth \u20ac249m, European Commissioner for Justice Michael McGrath has confirmed.<\/p>\n

The country has been granted \u20ac1.15bn allocation in grants over the lifetime of the RRF, the EU’s \u20ac723bn plan to fund member states’ green and digital transitions<\/a> post-Covid.<\/p>\n

Payments under the RRF are performance-based and depend on the successful implementation by Ireland of the investments and reforms as set out in its National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP). <\/p>\n

The plan covers the priorities of Advancing the Green Transition, Accelerating and Expanding Digital Reforms and Transformation, Social and Economic Recovery and Job Creation, and REPowerEU.<\/p>\n

The latest payment will be used to fund the construction of an extended platform at Cork\u2019s Kent station to enable future electrification in Cork commuter rail; construction of a government data centre; digitalisation of the health system; Solas’ reskilling and upskilling programme; and the Technological Universities Transformation Fund to build capacity in education and training in technological universities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am delighted to receive confirmation from EU Commissioner Michael McGrath that Ireland will receive a further \u20ac249m under the EU\u2019s Recovery and Resilience Facility,” said Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure and Reform Jack Chambers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“This payment request will bring the funds paid to Ireland under the RRF to \u20ac929m, corresponding to drawdown of 80% of the overall allocation and 80% of all milestones and targets in the plan now achieved. <\/p>\n

“This paves the way for continued progress towards full implementation of Ireland\u2019s plan before the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n

T\u00e1naiste and Minister for Finance Simon Harris said: \u201cThis \u20ac249m payment marks Ireland\u2019s penultimate disbursement under the EU\u2019s Recovery and Resilience Facility.<\/p>\n

“The Facility underpins the Union\u2019s determination to recover from the Covid\u201119 crisis stronger and more resilient. Ireland has been at the forefront of this effort, delivering on our commitments and demonstrating the value of collective EU action.<\/p>\n

\"Ireland\"The funding will be used in part to build a government data centre.<\/p>\n

“We are focused now on completing our Plan ahead of the Facility\u2019s closure later this year, coinciding with Ireland\u2019s forthcoming Presidency of the Council of the European Union.”<\/p>\n

In addition, Ireland\u2019s fourth payment request includes a reform in offshore renewable electricity to accelerate the uptake of offshore renewable energy sources.<\/p>\n

Photo: Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, Jack Chambers, speaks at the Association of Consulting Engineers of Ireland (ACEI) flagship conference in Croke Park. (Pic: Leah Farrell \/ \u00a9 RollingNews.ie)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland will receives its fourth payment under the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) worth \u20ac249m, European Commissioner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-450083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}