Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 February 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund

9:00 am

Mr. Kenneth Jordan:

I can summarise it for the committee. There is a €12.4 million underspend for the former Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government. Part of the issue in the 2018 action plan is to work out each of those schemes and draw a line under them if they are not going to progress. The Department dealing with housing has a €6 million underspend and the Department dealing with rural, regional and Gaeltacht affairs has an underspend of €3.8 million. Our Department has €11.5 million in its underspend. Much of that is the Social Innovation Fund Ireland, SIFI, and it is technically not an underspend as the €10 million commitment was planned over three years. The Department of Children and Youth Affairs has an underspend of €7.5 million, as does the Department of Justice and Equality. The Department of Health figure is €4.5 million. The other most significant figure is for the Department of Education and Skills at €3.4 million. The aggregate underspend in 2012 was €4 million and in 2013 it was €6.5 million.

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