Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 16 October 2018
335. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the proposed current and capital allocation to each agency under her remit following budget 2019; and the allocation made in her Department and in each agency towards hiring new staff in tabular form. [42533/18]
View answerThe Expenditure Report 2019 which accompanied the Budget 2019 Statement by my colleague the Minister for Finance set out my Department’s summary capital and current expenditure ceilings for next year. The proposed gross allocation of €950.2million for my Department in 2019 as set out in the Report represents an increase of 9.1% on the Department’s 2018 allocation of €871million and includes an increase in our capital funding from €555m to €620million in 2019 and also an increase in our current funding from €316million to €330.2million next year. The Expenditure Report provided a summary of the new measures to be funded from our increased allocation in 2019. These new measures include additional funding to the Department, its Regulatory Bodies and its Enterprise Agencies to provide additional staffing and non-staffing related resources to meet the Brexit challenge, progress the Global Footprint Initiative and address a number of additional regulatory responsibilities.
The distribution of the additional funding provided in Budget 2019 as and between the department, its Enterprise Agencies and Regulatory Bodies will be determined through the 2019 Revised Estimates Volume (REV) process which will be conducted in the weeks ahead. It is expected that finalisation and publication of the 2019 REV allocations will be made in early December 2019.
