Mr. Eddie Casey:

Not really. I do not believe there is a formal process for documenting how much of the budget is carried over. Until one sees the expenditure report with the budget and what the Department expects the carryover to be, one cannot tell. The only thing we have received that might be worth looking at is the major expenditure report from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. Early estimates for the year showed that the number of staff was to increase by 1,800, but 1,700 new staff had already been recruited by May. Recruitment was running at a much faster pace than had been expected for the full year. The Department extrapolated from this and concluded that if there were already 1,700 new staff by May and the target for the year was 1,800, then the overall number of new staff is likely to be much higher by the end of the year.