Ireland submits its third payment request under EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), with a value of €240 million
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The Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, Jack Chambers, today (11th August 2025) announced that Ireland has submitted its third payment request under the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF).
Ireland will receive approximately €1.15 billion over the lifetime of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) funded by the RRF as part of the European recovery plan, NextGenerationEU. The overall objective of Ireland’s NRRP is to contribute to a sustainable, equitable, green and digital recovery effort, in a manner that complements and supports the government’s broader efforts.
The RRF allocation will be paid to Ireland in five instalments. The drawdown of payments under this performance-based Facility is contingent on the timely delivery of the milestones and targets by each Accountable Department and on providing the supporting evidence to this effect. Ireland has already received its first and second payments of €324 million and €115 million respectively under the Facility.
The third payment request relates to 14 milestones and targets with a value of €240 million and includes investments such as concluding the Technological Universities Transformation Fund (the N-TUTORR project), the expansion of the rehabilitation of peatlands, as well as further works on electrification of the transport networks in Cork and Drogheda. This support will help transform the student experience and develop the capabilities of all University staff, positively enhance the carbon storage and biodiversity benefits of peatlands and deliver improved transport services for commuters.
In addition, Ireland’s third payment request includes a series of reforms in areas including the National Biomethane Strategy which sets out the necessary policy and regulatory measures and provides a roadmap to developing a biomethane industry of scale in Ireland.
Minister Chambers said:
"I am pleased that we have further progressed implementation of our National Recovery and Resilience Plan to the stage where we can formally submit Ireland’s third payment request under the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). This follows extensive engagement between departments across Government and the European Commission during the informal cooperation process.
"The RRF is the main pillar of the European recovery plan, NextGenerationEU, designed to provide financial aid to Member States in order to combat the economic and social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and make the European economy more resistant to future shocks.
"The Commission will now review this third payment request and send its preliminary assessment of Ireland’s fulfilment of the milestones and targets required for this payment to the European Council's Economic and Financial Committee.
Once approved, Ireland will have successfully achieved 60% of both the milestones and targets within the Plan and of our €1.15 billion total allocation."
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The Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) is the main pillar of the European recovery plan, NextGenerationEU, designed to provide financial aid to Member States to combat the economic and social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and make the European economy more resistant to future shocks.
The RRF entered into force on 19 February 2021. It finances reforms and investments in EU Member States made from the start of the pandemic in February 2020 until 31 December 2026. Countries can receive financing up to a previously agreed maximum amount.
To benefit from support under the Facility, EU Governments have submitted national recovery and resilience plans, outlining the reforms and investments they will implement by end-2026, with clear milestones and targets. The plans had to allocate at least 37% of their budget to green measures and 20% to digital measures.
The Recovery and Resilience Facility is performance-based. This means that the Commission only pays out the amounts to each country when they have achieved the agreed milestones and targets towards completing the reforms and investments included in their plan.
Ireland’s RRF allocation is €1.15 billion, including REPowerEU. The National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) covers 11 reforms and 19 investments with 117 associated milestones and targets. Payment is contingent on achievement of the milestones and targets in each payment instalment. This payment request was formally submitted to the Commission on 11th August and covers a total of 14 milestones and targets and amounts to €240 million.
RRF projects are pre-funded through the Estimates processes and the National Development Plan, with the RRF allocated funding being recouped from the EU after the milestones and targets have been achieved.
More information can be found on the government and European Commission websites at:
https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/d4939-national-recovery-and-resilience-plan-2021/ and