Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 178: To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount of taxes, penalties and interest recovered arising from the different revenue investigations and tribunals of inquiry from 1997 to date; the amount in respect of each such investigation, such as the inquiry into DIRT and Ansbacher accounts; if he allocated the proceeds of such investigations and tribunal inquiries to specific expenditure headings; and if so, if he will identify those headings. [23111/05]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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I am informed by the Revenue Commissioners that figures of the total yield from various special investigations and initiatives by the Revenue Commissioners, which are available for the years 1998 to 2004 and updated to 31 May 2005 are set out in the following table.

Any apparent discrepancies in totals are due to rounding of constituent figures. Further information on the yields from the various special investigations and initiatives can be found on the Revenue website at www.revenue.ie.

As regards allocating the proceeds of such investigations and tribunal inquiries to specific expenditure headings, it is a constitutional requirement that, in the absence of specific legislation to the contrary, all State revenues be paid into the central fund. All of the moneys received to date from Revenue special investigations have been paid into the central fund and, as such, became part of the general revenues underpinning the Government's expenditure targets in those years.