Capital Expenditure Programme

Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Questions (360)

Sean Fleming

Question:

360. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a breakdown of the €31 million of capital funding spent by his Department during December; the reason 28% of his Department's overall capital spend was held until December; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5141/13]

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Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

A breakdown of capital expenditure on the OPW Vote for 2012 including December is as follows:

F.S.	Description/Subhead	January to November Expenditure - €	December Expenditure - €	2012 Total Expenditure - €
15	C.4 Grant Zoological (C1)	278,000	122,000	400,000
16	C.5 Grants for Refurbishment (C2)	191,750	58,250	250,000
20	C.6 Purchase of Sites & Bldgs (D)	544,697	500,000	1,044,697
25	C.7 New Works (Excluding C/F)(E)	24,828,836	6,623,586	31,452,423
28	C.13 EU Presidency Capital	2,837,150	1,115,779	3,952,929
36	C.11 Unitary Payments Capital (F6)	18,534,275	1,687,193	20,221,468
40	A.3 CEW Capital (G)	519,457	198,645	718,102
51	A.5 Flood Relief (H2)	33,952,908	18,062,342	52,015,250
-	Gross Expenditure	81,687,074	28,367,795	110,054,869

Capital expenditure on the OPW Vote in 2012 was broadly in line with profiled expenditure for the year including a significant level of expenditure profiled for December.

Expenditure in December included payments for numerous projects including capital works for the EU Presidency and payments to Local Authorities for flood risk management works.