Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)
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Question 70: To ask the Minister for Finance the capital underspend for each of the Departments to date; the percentage of this underspend that will carry forward to 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39232/06]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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As part of the improved arrangements for managing capital programmes under the rolling multi-annual annual capital envelopes, Departments and Offices may carry over unspent Exchequer capital of up to 10% of their voted overall capital allocation to the following year, thereby ensuring that such amounts are available for spending on capital priorities in the following year.

As published in the Abridged Estimates Volume (AEV) on 17th November last, Government Departments and Offices are at this stage forecasting a capital carryover of €182 million from 2006 into 2007. This amounts to 2.7% of the overall gross capital provision for 2006 of €6.8 billion.

The indicative capital carryover by Departments/ Offices and the percentage that it represents of their gross voted capital provision for 2006 is as follows:

The indicative capital subheads where it is intended to apply the capital carryover in 2007 are set out in the AEV under each of the Votes concerned.

The final definitive amount of carryover will be set out in the 2006 Appropriation Act subject to confirmation in a Statutory Instrument which I will make before 31st March next year.