Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Wednesday, 9 Oct 2002

Vol. 554 No. 5

Written Answers. - Departmental Expenditure.

Bernard Allen

Ceist:

442 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Finance the way in which spending in the first nine months of 2002 compares to the budgeted profile for spending for each major programme of his Department's spending; and his forecast for year-end overruns. [17163/02]

Minister for Finance (Mr. McCreevy):

As can be seen from the figures below, most major programmes are at or below profile at the end of September.

	Subhead	Profile to endSeptember 02	Spend to endSeptember 02
		€	€
E	Ordnance Survey Ireland	6,953,800	7,450,500
H2	Public Service Benchmarking Body	984,000	2,704,843
J1	Structural Funds Technical Assistance and other costs	2,855,744	2,487,260
J2	Technical Assistance Costs of Regional Assemblies	411,500	356,746
L	Payments to the Promoters of Certain Charitable Lotteries	0	0
M	Euro Changeover Board of Ireland	3,585,000	3,317,361
N	Change Management Fund	4,158,000	1,591,812
O1	Peace Programme	5,776,208	1,898,799
O2	Northern Ireland Interreg	2,654,140	217,442
O3	Special EU Programmes Body	1,168,147	905,527
P	Other Community Initiatives	928,000	185,721
Q	Information Society	5,497,861	1,304,589
R	Civil Service Child Care Initiative	1,020,000	2,539
S	E-Procurement Initiative	3,072,000	23,796

Expenditure on subhead E – Ordnance Survey Ireland – is running ahead of profile due to a timing issue and I fully expect expenditure on this programme to be in line with the Estimate provision at year end.

There is an expected overrun in the order of €1.7 million on subhead H2 – Public Service Benchmarking Body. The biggest cost under this heading was consultancy payments. The overrun will be met by underspends on other programmes within the Department of Finance Vote. I do not expect any other programme to exceed its allocation for 2002.