Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Thursday, 16 May 1991

Vol. 408 No. 6

Written Answers. - Social Welfare Vote Surplus.

Gerry O'Sullivan

Ceist:

61 Mr. G. O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he will outline the amount of money under the various subheads of the Vote for his Department which was not used last year; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Minister for Social Welfare (Dr. Woods)

The figures the Deputy requested are set out in the following tabular statement.

The net surplus on the Vote, amounted to £5,618,815, which represents 0.20 per cent of total Social Welfare expenditure.

	Service	Grant	Not Used
		£	£
	Administration Etc.
A1	Salaries, wages and allowances	52,400,000	1,508,761
A2	Consultancy services	600,000	76,573
B1	Travelling and incidental expenses	5,000,000	67,717
B2	Office machinery and other office supplies	5,320,000	208,488
C	Postal and telecommunications services	7,410,000	589,507
D1	Payments for agency services	15,510,000	38,771
1D2	Payment to An Post	3,200,000	3,200,000
	Social Insurance
2E	Payment to the social insurance fund under section 122 (9) of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981	123,680,000	47,680,000
G	Child benefit	211,500,000	1,776,696
L	Miscellaneous grants	100,490,000	2,786,901

1 Development work on the modernisation of An Post's counter services, for which this sum was allocated, did not commence in 1990. This work is expected to start in 1991.

2 Due mainly to increased income.