Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 109: To ask the Minister for Finance if funding for the purchase of decentralisation properties identified as having been approved by Government to proceed in budget 2009 has been or will be committed in the context of the current economic climate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22411/09]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 110: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has informed individual Departments that funding previously anticipated as available for decentralisation projects will no longer be made available by his Department; if he will provide details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22412/09]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 109 and 110 together.

The 2009 Revised Estimates for the Public Service provide sufficient funding this year in respect of those projects identified as priority projects in Budget 2009 that are ready to commence during the current year. My Department has also taken account of the full multi-annual costs of the priority projects in preparing its projections for 2010 and 2011. As you will be aware from my Statement to the Dáil in respect of the Supplementary Budget, the Government has set new strict expenditure ceilings for both capital and current expenditure for 2010 and 2011. Within these tighter expenditure limits, priorities will have to be determined over that period having regard to other demands on the OPW's capital budget. The timing of the commencement of individual projects, and consequently the expenditure incurred in respect thereof, will be determined having regard to such other emerging priorities.