Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 21 Feb 1995

Vol. 449 No. 4

Written Answers - Appropriations-in-Aid.

Colm M. Hilliard

Question:

62 Mr. Hilliard asked the Minister for Finance the appropriations-in-aid included in the Vote for each Government Department as stated in the 1995 book of estimates; the relevant figures in 1994; and the way in which these figures were arrived at. [3627/95]

Minister for Finance (Mr. Quinn)

The following table gives the information requested by the Deputy.

Under section 2 of the Public Accounts and Charges Act, 1891, certain receipts arising in the normal course of a Department's or Office's ordinary Vote business may be retained by that Department or Office to meet expenditure instead of being paid directly into the Exchequer. These receipts are known as appropriations-in-aid and can include such items as charges for services, pensions contributions, rentals and proceeds from certain sales, fines, forfeitures or costs recovered, and EU receipts.

Under the Act, moneys applied as appropriations-in-aid are regarded as moneys provided by the Oireachtas and the specific amounts to be applied to each Vote are authorised in the annual Appropriation Act.

EU receipts are calculated in accordance with the regulations governing the spending scheme which attracts the EU aid.

The Appropriations-in-Aid for each Government Department for the years 1994/5 are as follows:

Department	1994 Provisional Outturn	1995 Estimate
	£000	£000
Houses of the Oireachtas & the European Parliament	614	606
Taoiseach's	131	675
Office of the Tánaiste	15	—
Central Statistics Office	1,373	1,580
Office of the Minister for Finance	655	571
Superannuation & Retired Allowances	14,191	12,297
Comptroller & Auditor General	339	1,470
Office of the Revenue Commissioners	17,571	18,149
Office of Public Works	12,025	12,450
State Laboratory	190	137
Office of the Attorney General	108	200
Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions	21	16
Valuation and Ordnance Survey	7,907	4,700
Civil Service Commission	1,062	1
Transport, Energy & Communications	40,648	32,256
Office of the Minister for Justice	1,417	1,344
Garda Síochána	15,602	15,400
Prisons	1,067	950
Courts	1,552	1,225
Environment	6,382	10,479
Office of the Minister for Education	3,584	5,985
First Level Education	33,121	33,652
Second Level & Further Education	78,510	82,256
Third Level & Further Education	67,701	60,381
Marine	6,152	4,820
Agriculture and Food	229,730	286,554
Forestry	33,461	42,059
Equality & Law Reform	22	5
Enterprise & Employment	12,707	10,853
Tourism & Trade	573	400
Defence	19,973	15,450
Army Pensions	2,604	2,785
Foreign Affairs	860	333
International Co-Operation	97	150
Social Welfare	73,026	78,682
Health	255,184	267,290
Arts, Culture & Gaeltacht	57,239	58,535
National Gallery	2	1
Total	997,416	1,064,697

A breakdown of all Appropriations-in-Aid is set out in the annual Revised Estimates Volume. A copy of the 1994 volume is available in the Dáil Library. The 1995 figures given above are taken from the Abridged (i.e. pre-budget) Estimates Volume as the 1995 Revised Estimate Volume has not been published yet.