Written answers
Thursday, 30 June 2005
Department of Agriculture and Food
Departmental Expenditure
8:00 pm
Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 480: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the amount of her Department's budgetary allocation for 2004; the amount of this allocation which was returned to the Department of Finance at year's end; the vote head from which such returned allocations were derived; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23982/05]
Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The Department's voted budget provision for 2004 was €1,405 million, gross. At the end of 2004, unspent budget amounted to €146.2 million. Of this, €17.949 million was carried over to 2005 under the multi-annual capital envelope arrangements agreed with the Minister for Finance, and a further €3.3 million was carried over under the administrative budget agreement.
Most of the Department's expenditure relates to demand led schemes, animal disease control measures and technical and financial costs relating to intervention. Expenditure in these areas is difficult to predict because it is demand or market-led, or dependent on the incidence of animal disease.
The savings in 2004 arose under the following subheads:
| Administrative Budget (subheads A.1 to A.10) | 12.1 m |
| Research and Training (subhead B) | 4.6 m |
| Animal Health Area (subhead C) | 26.4 m |
| Market Supports — technical and related costs | 7.2 m |
| REPS (subhead F) | 52.4 m |
| Land Mobility (subhead G) | 14.6 m |
| Development of Agriculture (subhead H) | 20.5 m |
| Forestry (subhead I —€14 m) | 13.9 m |
| Other (subhead M) | 0.7 m |
| Total savings | 152.2 m* |
| *This was offset by additional spending on Income supports in disadvantaged areas — subhead E — amounting to €6.2 million. |
Brian O'Shea (Waterford, Labour)
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Question 481: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the amount her Department has spent to date in 2005 on the implementation of the provisions of the Official Languages Act 2003; her estimate of the amount which her Department will spend on the implementation of the Official Languages Act 2003 for the full year in 2005; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24016/05]
Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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In the year to date my Department has spent €27,000 on the implementation of the provisions of the Official Languages Act 2003. It is estimated that in the region of €100,000 will be spent in total on the implementation of the Act for the year 2005.
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