Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 April 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011
1:40 pm
Mr. Aidan Dunning:
It is significant. There are a number of factors. The primary factor would have been the energy efficiency schemes. That was where the main savings would have arisen, because these are demand-led schemes and we have noticed a trend from 2011 onwards whereby demand for grants under these schemes has diminished slightly. The provision we inserted in 2011 for energy efficiency schemes included an additional €30 million that was added in the middle of the year as part of the Government's stimulus package for employment so we received additional money in the middle of 2011. We did not spend all of that and were about €10 million below that. There were also savings on the broadband side. I already mentioned the schools broadband. Expenditure did not happen as quickly as we expected on that front so we surrendered that. There were also some other savings. We had some contingency provisions in the broadband area that we did not need to use. It is an amalgamation of things.
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