Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 28 February 2017
503. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the expenditure to date of the capital carryover from 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10471/17]
View answerThe Oireachtas provides approval for the carryover amounts through its approval of the Appropriation Bill and the Estimates. Provision is made in the Revised Estimates Volume 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.
