asked the Minister for Finance the saving in 1987 on a full year basis of each of the expenditure decisions set out in the document the "Principal Features of the 1987 Budget".
Written Answers. - Savings from Expenditure Decisions.
61.
The 1987 and full year savings arising from the expenditure decisions — non-capital and capital — set out in the document the "Principal Features of the 1987 Budget" are shown in the following lists.
Expenditure Decisions set out in the document "Principal Features of the 1987 Budget"
A. Non-Capital
|
Vote/Ministerial Group |
Measure |
Saving (£000) |
|
|
1987 |
Full-year |
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|
Finance |
National Lottery — lower expenditure owing to lower estimate of receipts |
3,000 |
3,000 |
|
Public Works & Buildings |
Travel, office machinery, maintenance, etc. efficiencies |
1,502 |
1,502 |
|
Rates on Government Property |
Maintain at roughly the 1986 level |
1,061 |
1,061 |
|
Farm Classification Office |
Abolition of the Office |
2,200 |
3,931 |
|
Justice |
Garda recruitment and overtime restrictions |
2,500 |
3,000 |
|
Prison overtime restriction |
1,000 |
1,000 |
|
|
Environment |
Cut in Rates Support Grants |
30,000 |
30,000 |
|
Education |
Cut in allocation for Youth and Sport |
6,060 |
10,700 |
|
(Full implementation in 1990) |
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VEC costs efficiencies |
2,100 |
2,100 |
|
|
Economies in the provision of third level services |
4,525 |
4,525 |
|
|
Vice-Principals at second level to be included in quota calculation |
300 |
7,200 |
|
|
(Full implementation in 1995 |
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Deferral of Computerisation |
500 |
500 |
|
|
School Transport |
700 |
1,000 |
|
|
Community and Comprehensive Schools |
500 |
500 |
|
|
Regional Technical Colleges |
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|
—greater efficiencies |
1,000 |
1,000 |
|
|
—additional Youth Employment Levy Funds |
2,100 |
2,100 |
|
|
Increase in European Social Fund receipts |
5,000 |
5,000 |
|
|
Forestry |
Sale of semi-mature timber |
3,000 |
3,000 |
|
Tourism |
Cut in Bord Fáilte allocation |
3,000 |
3,000 |
|
Agriculture |
Increase in disease levies |
12,700 |
12,700 |
|
ACOT/AFT—reduce level of services |
4,400 |
4,400 |
|
|
Agriculture/Industry & Commerce |
Abolition of food subsidies |
18,800 |
21,800 |
|
Labour |
Social Employment Scheme — increase in numbers and reduction in certain allowances |
(3,000) |
(4,500) |
|
AnCO/YEA cut in allocations |
1,000 |
1,000 |
|
|
Teamwork — reduction in certain allowances |
500 |
700 |
|
|
Enterprise Allowance Scheme |
1,500 |
1,500 |
|
|
Increase in European Social Fund Receipts |
3,000 |
3,000 |
|
|
Industry & Commerce |
Cut in CTT allocation |
2,148 |
2,148 |
|
Cut in allocations for IIRS/Kilkenny Design Workshop/National Micro-Electronics Research Centre/NBST |
1,028 |
1,028 |
|
|
Cut in IDA allocation |
1,798 |
1,798 |
|
|
Increase Companies Office fees |
550 |
550 |
|
|
Communications |
Cut in Aerlínte Éireann subvention |
2,000 |
2,000 |
|
Cut in CIE subvention |
2,000 |
2,000 |
|
|
Defence |
Army Transport efficiencies |
1,000 |
1,000 |
|
Cut in Army numbers |
3,000 |
4,500 |
|
|
Foreign Affairs/ International Co-operation |
Cut in Official Development Assistance |
7,627 |
7,627 |
|
Social Welfare |
Reduction in pay related benefit |
13,000 |
28,000 |
|
Increased conditionality of Disability Benefit, Unemployment Benefit and Maternity Benefit |
8,500 |
13,000 |
|
|
Adjustments in sick pay schemes operated by State and semi-State employers |
1,000 |
1,000 |
|
|
Fraud and Abuse |
4,000 |
5,000 |
|
|
Jobsearch Programme |
11,500 |
15,000 |
|
|
Social Employment Scheme |
2,650 |
2,700 |
|
|
Cost of advancing 3% Social Welfare increase from November to July |
(19,000) |
Nil |
|
|
Health |
Curtail recruitment |
14,400 |
30,000 |
|
Reductions in premium pay |
5,200 |
5,700 |
|
|
Trainee nurses — revised pay arrangements |
1,500 |
3,000 |
|
|
Charge on consultants |
1,500 |
1,500 |
|
|
Outpatient charges |
6,700 |
9,000 |
|
|
Efficiencies in the operation of the GMS |
8,300 |
8,300 |
|
|
Increase in Health contribution |
11,000 |
20,000 |
|
|
Public Ward charges |
6,000 |
9,000 |
|
|
Efficiency measures in hospital purchasing and travel |
5,000 |
8,000 |
|
|
Public Service Pay |
No special pay awards beyond those already approved |
9,300 |
N.A. |
|
Reduction in public service numbers |
4,000 |
10,000 |
B. Capital
|
Ministerial Group |
Measure |
Saving (£000) |
|
|
1987 |
Full year |
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|
Taoiseach |
Voted |
||
|
Irish Film Board—allocation reduced |
250 |
250 |
|
|
Finance |
Voted |
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|
New decentralisation programme (OPW) |
(1,000) |
—* |
|
|
Justice |
Voted |
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|
Prisons — new prison project postponed |
2,000 |
2,000 |
|
|
Environment |
Voted |
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New House Grant (builder's £2,250) — scheme terminated |
2,000 |
37,000** |
|
|
House Improvement Grants — scheme terminated. (Disabled persons and essential repairs grants retained). |
— |
50,000** |
|
|
£5,000 grant scheme for local authority tenants and tenant purchasers — scheme terminated |
4,500 |
10,000** |
|
|
Special Amenity Grants — scheme terminated |
2,000 |
6,000 |
|
|
Metropolitan Streets Commission — funding suspended |
3,000 |
3,000 |
|
|
Non-voted |
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|
Local Authority Housing Programme — allocation reduced |
12,000 |
12,000 |
|
|
House Purchase and Improvement Loans etc. (including Housing Finance Agency) — allocation reduced |
5,000 |
5,000 |
|
|
Sanitary Services programme — allocation reduced |
3,000 |
3,000 |
|
|
Fire and Emergency services programme — allocation reduced |
1,000 |
1,000 |
|
|
Custom House Docks Development Authority — £2m. non-Exchequer funding provided for necessary site acquisition and clearance costs |
3,000 |
3,000 |
|
|
Fisheries |
Voted |
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|
Fishery Harbours — allocation reduced |
200 |
200 |
|
|
BIM capital grant-in-aid — allocation reduced |
100 |
100 |
|
|
Non-voted |
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|
BIM — allocation reduced |
250 |
250 |
|
|
Forestry |
Voted |
||
|
Private forestry grants — allocation reduced |
200 |
200 |
|
|
Tourism |
Voted |
||
|
Bord Failte — allocation reduced |
250 |
250 |
|
|
Agriculture |
Voted |
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|
University Colleges — allocation reduced |
100 |
100 |
|
|
ACOT — allocation reduced |
150 |
150 |
|
|
Farm Improvement Programme — reduction in scope and in grant rates |
2,250 |
3,000 |
|
|
Industry & Commerce |
Voted |
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|
IDA Capital Grants — allocation reduced |
9,000 |
9,000 |
|
|
SFADCo Capital Grants — allocation reduced |
1,257 |
1,257 |
|
|
Non-voted |
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|
SFADCo Building operations — allocation reduced |
585 |
585 |
|
|
Kilkenny Design Workshops Ltd. — additional State equity |
(225) |
(225) |
|
|
National Development Corporation — allocation reduced |
3,300 |
3,300 |
|
|
Communications |
Voted |
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|
Harbours — allocation reduced |
1,670 |
1,670 |
|
|
State Airports — allocation reduced |
2,900 |
2,900 |
|
|
Dublin Transport Authority — allocation reduced |
100 |
100 |
|
|
Shipping Investment Grants — allocation reduced |
1,000 |
1,000 |
|
|
Non-voted |
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|
State Airports — increased allocation |
(1,500) |
(1,500) |
|
|
CIE — allocation reduced |
1,000 |
1,000 |
|
|
Harbour Authorities — allocation reduced |
559 |
559 |
|
|
Health |
Voted |
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|
Hospital building, equipping and furnishing — allocation reduced |
3,000 |
3,000 |
|
|
Energy |
Non-voted |
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|
ESB — allocation reduced |
3,000 |
3,000 |
|
|
A. Total Adjustment to PCP |
65,896 |
162,146 |
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|
of which: |
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|
Voted |
34,927 |
131,177 |
|
|
Non-voted |
30,969 |
30,969 |
|
|
B. Non-Programme Outlays — contingency provision reduced |
15,000 |
15,000 |
|
|
C. Total adjustment to Capital Budget (A+B) |
80,896 |
177,146 |
* Private investment sought for programme.
** Estimated annual saving to the Exchequer once an established expenditure pattern under the scheme had emerged.