Ned O'Sullivan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister of State to the House in a week where we heard very good news for the Shannon Foynes Port Company, which is in his constituency, and of which I was a commissioner and director for 16 years. I am sure the Minister of State and myself are on the one word there.

Fianna Fáil supports this technical legislation. The Bill gives statutory authority for the amounts Voted by the Dáil during the year. These amounts include the original Estimates, Further Revised Estimates and Supplementary Estimates. It also provides for sums deferred into the year ended 31 December 2019. The term "capital supply service and purpose" means a supply service Voted by the Dáil, the purpose of which is to create an asset intended for the use on a continuing basis within an expected life of more than one year. These are sums for which surrender is deferred into 2019. These are mostly salaries and expenses for 14 offices and Departments of Government to allow for the continuing supply of services. Fianna Fáil supports the Bill because if it was not approved by the House, there would be nothing to spend in January of next year and that would be a poor look out.