Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 21 September 2017
128. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of capital expenditure carried over from 2016 to 2017; the amount of this spent to date by subheading; if she is satisfied that all of this money will be spent by the end of 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40018/17]
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. In the period since the making of the relevant Order by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform on the 6th of March 2017 up to the 31st August 2017, provisional expenditure totalling €3.843 million has been incurred against the total carryover amount of €13.548 million for my Department as follows:
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€ |
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Subhead A.7 Cultural Infrastructure and Development €721,000 |
€721,000 |
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Subhead A.15 Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 €1,122,000 |
€1,122,000 |
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Subhead B.5 Natural Heritage (National Parks and Wildlife Service) |
€2,000,000 |
Capital expenditure by its very nature is difficult to predict and generally expenditure on capital projects accelerates in the final quarter of the year. I do not anticipate any significant underspend on capital carryover by year end.
