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Departmental Expenditure

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 17 January 2012

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

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Brendan Smith

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446 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Health the total allocated budget for his Department in 2011; and the outturns in each of his Department subheads at the end of 2011. [2136/12]

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The Gross Current Vote for my Department in 2011 was €331.610m, of which €275.372m was spent to the end of December, leaving €56m unspent at that date.

This surplus can be attributed to a number of factors:

Hepatitis C Compensation Subheads

Subhead D, Inquiries and Miscellaneous Legal Fees and Settlements

Administrative Budget

The Administrative Budget had a €5m in surplus in 2011. €1m of this relates to a provision made in Subhead A.7 in relation to a proposed consultancy in relation to VHI. A further €1.5m approximately is on other non-pay subheads, such as training, cleaning, office machinery and supplies etc. The remainder of the surplus is attributable to the non filling of vacancies as a result of the moratorium on recruitment, and reduced levels of overtime.

Grants to Health Agencies

At the end of December there were savings of some €12m in relation to Grants to Health Agencies. The main agencies showing surpluses are the Health Research Board and the Health Information and Quality Authority, with small surpluses on some of the other directly funded agencies.

There was also an underspend of €6.7m on the Gross Capital Vote of €16.091m, €1.5m of which was approved for a Capital carryover into 2012.

The outturns in each of my Department's subheads is set out in the accompanying table:

Vote 39 DOH

Outturn

Profile

€000

€000

Return

A01

22,872

25,581

A02

313

654

A03

679

868

A04

524

778

A05

967

1,101

A06

836

925

A07

832

2,194

Sub-total Admin Budget

27,023

32,101

B01

34,430

36,797

B02

3,286

3,286

B03

16,501

17,743

C00

2,579

2,600

D00

15,464

22,593

E01

49,721

61,569

E02

5,950

5,950

E03

85,587

85,587

E04

2,003

2,190

F01

374

745

F02

0

1

F03

28,600

50,786

F04

3,600

8,849

G00

254

813

Gross non capital

275,372

331,610

A-in-A

4,973

3,916

Net total

270,399

327,694

Capital

A5

349

473

B3

1,070

618

H

7,939

15,000

Total

9,358

16,091

Grand Total

279,757

343,785

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