Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As the Deputy will be aware, my Department is responsible for the allocation of public funds across each area of government spending and seeks to ensure that expenditure is managed by Departments in line with these allocations. Those allocations are laid out in the NDP.

To answer the Deputy's questions, the Fiscal Monitor for December 2022 recorded gross capital expenditure of more than €10.9 billion, which was €569 million behind the full 2022 capital expenditure allocation of almost €11.5 billion, including Supplementary Estimates. The answer to the Deputy's question overall is that it was €569 million below planned spending.

The expenditure figure of €10.9 billion includes a capital carryover into 2023 of €687 million, which was the second part of the Deputy’s question. If we were to exclude that and include the carryover of €789 million from 2021 that was spent in 2022, the gross total spend in 2022 was just over €11 billion. I will check when the Deputy responds with his next question whether I have the figures by Department as well.

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