Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Appropriations-in-aid are income receipts to the Department, other than from the Exchequer. The vast majority - €222 million of a total of €338 million - represent the pass-through of television licence funds from An Post which are then paid out by the Department to RTE, TG4 and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. The balance is made up of income to Inland Fisheries Ireland, the Geological Survey of Ireland, the GPO property nominal rent and pension related deductions in public bodies being returned to the Exchequer.