Departmental Budgets

Wednesday, 19 December 2018

Questions (208)

Barry Cowen

Question:

208. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the appropriations-in-aid for each Department; the amount taken in; the amount spent; the net position in each of the years 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018, by Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53979/18]

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Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform

Appropriations-in-aid are Departmental receipts which, as set out in Public Financial Procedures, need not be paid directly into the Exchequer, but which may be retained to defray the expenses of the Vote to which they refer. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform databank, http://databank.per.gov.ie , sets out appropriations-in-aid for each Vote broken down into non-pay, pay, pensions, and capital.

In the databank appropriations-in-aid represent the difference between gross and net voted expenditure. The data in the databank is updated to reflect the latest published Estimates structure. Table 1 in the attached document sets out the position with regard to appropriations-in-aid for each of the years 2011 to 2017 on a Vote group basis. The Revised Estimates Volume includes within the gross expenditure amounts for the Employment Affairs and Social Protection Group, and the Education and Skills Group, expenditure respectively of the Social Insurance Fund and the National Training Fund. For consistency, this expenditure is also reflected within the overall appropriations-in-aid figures on the databank and in the table attached. For information, this expenditure is also set out separately in Table 2.

Table 3 sets out the position for 2018, showing the initial allocation made in REV 2018, the end-November outturn and the forecast outturn for the year as notified by Departments and Offices. The forecast outturn includes anticipated additional EU receipts in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and European Social Fund receipts in the Department of Education and Skills.

Table 1: Total Appropriations-in-Aid by Vote Group 2011 – 2017

	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
	€000	€000	€000	€000	€000	€000	€000
Taoiseach's Group	7,648	8,357	7,587	6,216	6,776	4,937	4,968
Finance Group	83,350	80,841	86,738	86,140	90,603	83,527	78,623
Public Expenditure and Reform Group	123,532	122,598	124,077	143,680	178,802	200,280	245,877
Justice Group	253,449	252,982	264,958	256,285	258,076	252,136	252,179
Education & Skills Group	943,752	921,409	912,791	905,834	883,026	831,847	823,908
Foreign Affairs Group	46,170	49,153	49,154	49,303	53,039	58,421	64,565
Communications, Climate Action & Environment Group	239,648	237,320	237,231	230,796	235,466	228,535	232,599
Agriculture, Food and the Marine Group	429,883	378,256	241,748	71,220	438,683	453,147	258,906
Transport, Tourism & Sport Group	428,319	450,541	439,637	390,277	405,663	383,627	379,175
Business, Enterprise & Innovation Group	56,085	50,342	51,295	49,248	51,925	52,680	52,528
Housing, Planning & Local Government Group	47,917	70,658	95,369	85,607	45,920	19,863	63,229
Defence Group	48,634	52,080	54,093	50,848	50,195	46,104	36,084
Employment Affairs & Social Protection Group	7,599,556	6,852,782	7,389,908	7,966,607	8,590,661	8,859,664	9,168,374
Children and Youth Affairs Group	4,254	12,387	5,351	22,898	24,598	22,007	20,996
Rural & Community Development	7,903	0	0	0	0	0	21,663
Health Group	1,463,142	1,494,433	1,377,269	1,341,887	527,975	460,408	459,319
Culture, Heritage & the Gaeltacht Group	5,897	6,245	6,033	9,135	6,788	8,620	5,468
Total	11,789,139	11,040,384	11,343,239	11,665,981	11,848,196	11,965,803	12,168,461

Table 2: Expenditure on the National Training Fund and Social Insurance Fund Included in Table 1 and Table 2

	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	20181
	€000	€000	€000	€000	€000	€000	€000	€000
National Training Fund	326,269	340,896	348,806	346,906	334,210	344,399	357,235	415,450
Social Insurance Fund	7,366,803	6,607,958	7,139,905	7,714,064	8,320,109	8,586,821	8,903,890	9,362,191
Total	7,693,072	6,948,854	7,488,711	8,060,970	8,654,319	8,931,220	9,261,125	9,777,641

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