Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Tuesday, 1 Jun 1993

Vol. 431 No. 6

Written Answers. - Government Expenditure.

Jim Higgins

Ceist:

42 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Finance the amount used for current Government expenditure and the day-today running of the country as against the amount used for the Public Capital Programme in each of the years from 1988 to 1992 and to date in 1993.

Minister for Finance (Mr. B. Ahern)

The information requested by the Deputy is set out in tabular form below.

	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	Budget	Issues 1993 End-March 1993 Exchequer
	£m	£m	£m	£m	£m	£m	£m
(a) Current Expenditure Central Fund	2,431	2,453	2,604	2,723	2,726	2,903	800
Non-Capital Supply Services	5,558	5,592	5,832	6,350	7,066	7,605	1,964
Total	7,989	8,045	8,436	9,073	9,792	10,508	2,764
(b) Public Capital Programme of which	1,329	1,391	1,653	1,687	1,842	2,323	—
(i) Exchequer	713	696	787	816	835	1,008	191*
(ii) Non-Exchequer	616	695	866	871	1,007	1,315	—

* As detailed above, Public Capital Programme spending is comprised of both Exchequer funded and non-Exchequer funded expenditure. A total of £944 million of the Exchequer-funded element of the 1993 PCP relates to voted capital services of which £191 million issued up to end-March of this year. This represents 21 per cent of the 1993 voted capital provision and indicates that Exchequer funded capital spending is broadly on target. Non-Exchequer funded PCP spending is monitored on annual basis for Budget Book purposes and, as such it is not possible to estimate first quarter issues in this regard.