Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 210: To ask the Taoiseach the amount of his 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 he will make a statement on the matter. [24248/05]

Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)
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The Estimates provision for my Department in 2004 was €37.5 million, of which €8,760,730 was surrendered to the Department of Finance at year-end. This was mainly due to a saving of €6.7 million from subhead K — Moriarty tribunal — as the provision which had been made for the possible award of legal costs on completion of the work of the tribunal was not required in 2004. There were also modest savings in a number of other subheads on the Department's Vote.

This included a saving of €910,000 in the administrative budget, subheads A1-A8, allocation for my Department. Approval was given by the Department of Finance for carryover of savings of €821,000 to 2005 under the administrative budget agreement which allows for the carryover of certain savings to the following year.