Written answers
Thursday, 16 June 2005
Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
Departmental Funding
5:00 pm
Michael Lowry (Tipperary North, Independent)
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Question 181: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of unspent money returned by his Department to the Department of Finance each year since 1997; the total departmental budget for each year since 1997; the projects for which this money was originally earmarked; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20444/05]
Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Details of net provisions and outturns from 1997 to date are set out in the following table. Also included are the resulting residual surpluses surrendered to the Exchequer, which are for the most part relatively small when compared to the full year provisions; the surplus in 2002 arose in the main from the transfer at that time of responsibility for national roads from my Department to the Department of Transport.
It should be noted that the amounts surrendered are the aggregate net amounts arising from savings and excesses across the full range of my Department's current and capital expenditure as well as fluctuations in appropriations-in-aid. Thus it is not practicable to relate these net surpluses to individual projects.
| Year | Provision | Outturn | Surplus Surrendered | As a % of provision |
| â'¬,000 | â'¬,000 | â'¬,000 | ||
| 1997 | 1,251,712 | 1,246,146 | 5,565 | 0.44 |
| 1998 | 1,289,103 | 1,283,423 | 5,680 | 0.44 |
| 1999 | 1,737,131 | 1,730,083 | 7,048 | 0.41 |
| 2000 | 2,236,933 | 2,235,209 | 1,724 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 3,135,734 | 3,134,974 | 759 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 2,819,081 | 2,771,512 | 47,569 | 1.69 |
| 2003 | 2,311,624 | 2,306,785 | 4,839 | 0.21 |
| *2004 | 2,309,788 | 2,228,701 | 5,486 | 0.24 |
| **2005 | 2,575,783 | |||
| *Surplus surrendered is net of capital carryover of €75.601 million. | ||||
| **Includes REV provision of €2,500.182 million plus capital carryover of €75.601 million. |
Beginning with 2004, the capital envelope agreement between the Department and the Department of Finance sets out aggregate capital provisions for the Department for rolling five-year periods, with the most recent envelope covering the period 2005 to 2009 valued at some €9 billion. At €75.601 million the 2004 carryover represented only 4.65% of total gross 2004 capital provision, well below the 10% carryover allowed, €162 million in the case of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government for 2004, as part of the multi-annual capital envelopes arrangements.
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