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Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 19 Jun 2002

Vol. 553 No. 3

Written Answers. - Public Expenditure.

Richard Bruton

Question:

62 Mr. R. Bruton asked the Minister for Finance the public expenditure in the first six months of 2002; the way in which this compares with the first six months of 2001 under each major expenditure programme; and the way in which this compares with the outturn of 2001 and the budgeted expenditure in 2002. [14093/02]

My reply relates to expenditure to the end of May as information to the end of June will not be available for a fortnight.

Table 1 – Total ministerial vote group spending to the end of May 2002 in comparison with the end of May 2001

Ministerial Vote Group(net voted total spending)*

Spending to May 2002

Spending to May 2001

Per cent increase

€000

€000

%

Taoiseach

55,525

43,850

27

Finance

355,132

324,424

9

Justice, Equality and Law Reform

646,338

538,963

20

Environment and Local Government

1,056,070

724,257

46

Education and Science

2,002,902

1,603,650

25

Marine and Natural Resources

63,734

56,811

12

Agriculture, Food and Rural Development

410,003

237,327

73

Public Enterprise

199,285

142,041

40

Health and Children

3,064,530

2,377,371

29

Enterprise, Trade and Employment

432,964

485,859

11

Tourism, Sport and Recreation

122,642

79,639

54

Defence

308,039

307,971

Foreign Affairs

234,853

168,791

39

Social, Community and Family Affairs

2,039,020

1,512,206

35

Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands

126,228

138,424

9

Total

11,117,265

8,741,555

27

*The vote groups listed do not take account of the name and functional changes recently announced by the Taoiseach.
Table 2 sets out the comparison between the 2001 provisional outturn and the budgeted expen diture in 2002, that is, the allocations set out in the Revised Estimates.
Table 2 – 2002 REV spending in comparison with 2001 provisional outturn
(by Ministerial vote group)

Ministerial Vote Group(net voted total spending)*

REV 2002**

2001 Outturn

Per cent increase

€000

€000

%

Taoiseach

155,322

119,525

30

Finance

1,098,040

986,983

11

Justice, Equality and Law Reform

1,582,648

1,456,176

9

Environment and Local Government

3,423,713

3,134,984

9

Education and Science

5,194,368

4,670,472

11

Marine and Natural Resources

248,825

213,046

17

Agriculture, Food and Rural Development

944,523

1,071,662

12

Public Enterprise

829,403

738,457

12

Health and Children

6,991,861

5,991,424

17

Enterprise, Trade and Employment

1,128,868

1,045,557

8

Tourism, Sport and Recreation

306,630

260,963

17

Defence

890,160

834,715

7

Foreign Affairs

544,105

376,253

45

Social Community and Family Affairs

5,129,878

4,105,917

25

Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands

376,059

347,609

8

Total

28,844,853

25,353,743

14

*The vote groups listed do not take account of the name and functional changes recently announced by the Taoiseach.
**Excluding the unallocated provision of €150 million for benchmarking.
The year-on-year spending increase of 27% shown at the end of May exceeded the annual increase of 14% provided in the Estimates. Year-on-year percentage increases during the early part of the year are affected by a variety of factors such as the timing of payments this year, the level of spending in the corresponding period last year and the absolute size of the figures being compared.
Spending to date is less than profiled by Departments and offices. Also 41% of the total allocation has been spent which is to be expected if there is an even pattern of spending throughout the year.
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