Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 21 March 2017
671. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason that €3.8 million of the capital carryover from 2016 into 2017 arising from an underspend on the decade of centenaries 1912-1922 has been allocated to other purposes in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13647/17]
Amharc ar fhreagra672. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason the €500,000 of capital carryover from 2016 into 2017 arising from an underspend on the Gaeltacht support schemes has been allocated to other purposes in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13648/17]
Amharc ar fhreagraI propose to take Questions Nos. 671 and 672 together.
Public Financial Procedures provide that a maximum of 10% of the capital envelope of a Vote may be carried over by way of deferred surrender to the following year for spending in that year on priority capital programmes subject to the approval of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. The Procedures do not require that the savings are carried over into the programme area in which they arose.
Having regard to known pressures across programme areas in my Department for 2017, and having regard to the totality of expenditure across my Department's Vote in 2016, including the redistribution of savings in 2016 by means of virement sanctioned by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, I am satisfied that the distribution of the capital carryover for spending on priority capital programmes in 2017 is appropriate.
