Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

I move the following Supplementary Estimate:

Vote 30 — Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Supplementary Estimate).

That a sum not exceeding €1,000 be granted to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of December, 2007, for the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, including certain services administered by that Office, and for payment of certain grants and sundry grants-in-aid.

I wish to acknowledge Deputy Ó Caoláin's point because this is a complex area in which I would have liked to have given Deputies further details in advance. I hope to follow such a policy in future.

A token Supplementary Estimate is proposed to provide for additional capital expenditure of €16.2 million by Sustainable Energy Ireland under subhead F1, energy conservation — capital. Sufficient capital funds are available within the overall 2007 Vote 30 allocation to fund this additional expenditure. However, as F1 is a grant-in-aid subhead, the funding provision therein may only be increased by means of a Supplementary Estimate approved by the Dáil.

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