Register of Public Sector Bodies 2024 - Final

The central government sector (S.1311) includes all bodies established through political processes and for whose activities a Minister of government or other responsible person is accountable to the people through the Oireachtas. This responsibility extends to the presentation of detailed audited annual accounts to the Oireachtas. Central government includes legislative, judicial and executive bodies established in this manner. The sector does not include public corporations or enterprises engaged in the production of commercial services or goods. The main categories of central government bodies are:

• Departments of State including any additional voted expenditure under the aegis of the Minister; 
• Extra-Budgetary Funds for which separate accounts are maintained and which are directly administered by departments; and
• Bodies which are not departments but which are funded almost entirely by the Exchequer. They are subject to controls and may be regarded as extensions of government departments.

See Background Notes for more information.

Figure 1.1 in the Public Sector chapter displays a breakdown of the Register by subsector.

A complete list of the Register in excel and csv formats are available here Register of Public Sector Bodies 2024 - Final Table 1.1 (XLS 52KB)  and Register of Public Sector Bodies 2024 - Final Table 1.1 csv file.

Departments of State, Vote Groups and Extra-Budgetary Funds

An annual survey of all central government departments is undertaken jointly by the CSO and the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation. This survey was issued to all central government departments in January 2025 to capture data for the reference year 2024.

This survey updated the Register for the April 2025 publication. The survey obtained extra information required to establish the statistical classification of all bodies under the aegis of these government departments. The updated information is set out in tables below. The next central government survey will take place in January 2026.

Departments, Votes, Extra-Budgetary Funds, Non-Commercial Agencies and Commercial Corporations are shown in the tables below. The tables below provide a breakdown for each central government department by ESA sub sector, type of funding for statistical classification purposes, all public bodies under their aegis by entity name. The tables also provide the vote number for all vote groups and lists the ultimate parent entity (if applicable, otherwise it will be left blank) where the entity is a subsidiary of a group.   

In total there are 635 bodies in central government. Figure 3.1 provides a breakdown per department of all Votes, Extra-Budgetary Funds, Non-Commercial Agencies and Commercial Corporations under the aegis of all central government departments.

Organisations providing health and personal social services

Table 3.19 sets out organisations that provide health and personal services on behalf of government and are classified in the central government sector. The Department of Children, Disability and Equality provides the funding to these organisations except for one entity in the list. In this particular case the majority of the funding for this entity comes from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. As this data relates to 2024, Table 3.19 refers to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth before the name of the Department was changed in 2025. These organisations receive high levels of funding from government with stringent conditions and the majority of their services are being provided on behalf of government. See Background Notes for further information.