Seanad debates

Thursday, 12 December 2002

Appropriation Bill, 2002 [Certified Money Bill]: Second and Subsequent Stages.

 

I will now briefly outline some of the detail of the Bill. Section 1 gives statutory effect to the departmental Estimates for supply services, including all Supplementary Estimates approved by the Dáil since the last Appropriation Act. The Dáil approved the original 2002 Estimates for departmental expenditure which totalled €28.8 billion prior to the summer recess. Since then it has approved a number of Supplementary Estimates for various Departments totalling €496 million. This extra amount brings the net total grant for supply services expenditure in 2002 to over €29 billion or nearly €32 billion in gross voted spending. Section 1(1) appropriates this total net amount of €29.3 billion to the various supply services for Departments and Offices as listed in the Schedule. In addition, section 1(2) provides for the application of a total amount of €2.48 billion in departmental receipts as appropriations-in-aid of the grants for the supply services of those Departments and Offices.

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