Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 157: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he has monitored public spending throughout all Departments in each of the past two years; the expected outturn for the end of 2009 in respect of such expenditure; if this is expected to be in accordance with projections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19290/09]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has reported to Government on all expenditure by Departments on a monthly basis since February 2002. This was supplemented by bi-monthly Expenditure Management Reports from the Departments of Social & Family Affairs, Health & Children, Justice, Equality & Law Reform and Education & Science from 2003. Departments with capital expenditure in excess of €250 million were required to report on their capital expenditure on a bi-monthly basis from 2005. Following a streamlining exercise, the Departments of Transport and Environment, Heritage & Local Government will give detailed reports on capital expenditure from 2009.

Total expenditure in 2009, as published in the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2009 on 23 April 2009, is estimated to be €63.9 billion in gross terms, or €47.4 billion in net terms.