Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

At this time, we are not planning to transfer funding for capital budgets from one Department to another this side of the recess. We will keep it under constant review. The Deputy identified the Department of Education, which is a Department that is busy with the implementation of a school building programme. Like other Departments, it has experienced inflation in respect of public works contracts and delivering on the infrastructure it has. We expect Departments to stay within budget and to manage their budgets effectively over the course of the year. While there are underspends across a range of Departments at this time, it is certainly the case those Departments are providing reassurance to my officials that they will catch up and spend their budgets over the course of this year, but we will keep it under close review.

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