Departmental Funding

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 17 January 2019

Thursday, 17 January 2019

Questions (240)

Éamon Ó Cuív

Question:

240. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount expended in 2018 to LAGs, county councils and other bodies for work not completed to date or for which no receipts or claims have been received for the work, by organisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2157/19]

Written answers

Minister for Rural and Community Development

As the Deputy will be aware, the preparation of the 2018 Appropriation Account for my Department has just commenced. A provisional appropriation account will be submitted to the Comptroller and Auditor General by the 31st March 2018.

The prepayments made by the Department in 2018 are compiled as part of this work and the information will therefore be available, on a provisional basis, at the end of March 2019. The final audited account will then be published in September 2019. Prepayments have been made in a limited number of instances and in line with sanction from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.