Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 31 January 2017
417. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of funding carried over by her Department to 2017; the subheads it was carried over under; the expenditure of this money to date in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4228/17]
View answerPublic Financial Procedures provide that a maximum of up to 10% of the capital envelope of a Vote may be carried over by way of ‘deferred surrender’ to the following year for spending in that year on priority capital programmes. Annual provision for the allocation and expenditure of capital carryover amounts is subject to Oireachtas approval. The total amount carried over by my Department from 2016 into 2017 is €13,548,000. The subheads under which it is intended to apply the capital carryover in 2017 are detailed in the Revised Estimates Volume (REV) at http://www.per.gov.ie/wp-content/uploads/RevisedEstimatesforPublicServices2017.pdf. The subheads in which the savings arose in 2016 are:
Subhead A.15 Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922
Subhead A.16 – Cork Event Centre
Subhead B.8 Peatlands Restoration
Subhead C.3 Gaeltacht Support Schemes
Subhead E.6 LEADER Rural Economy Sub Programme
The Oireachtas provides approval for the carryover amounts through its approval of the Appropriation Bill and the Estimates. Provision is made in the REV for the capital carryover amount by subhead and in a Ministerial Order to be made by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform before 31 March in the year of carryover. The making by the Minister of this Order renders capital expenditure on the programmes, which have been included in the Order, a first charge against the carryover amounts for those programmes. As such a Ministerial Order has not yet been made in 2017, no expenditure has been incurred by my Department this year against capital carryover.
