John O'Mahony (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 259: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount of unspent money returned by his Department to the Department of Finance each year since 2007; the departmental budget for each year since 2007; the projects for which this money was originally earmarked in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21785/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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Details of the Department's budget and various expenditure headings is published annually in the Revised Estimates Volume and subsequently in the Annual Output Statement and the Appropriation Account. All of the publications in question are available in the library of the Houses of the Oireachtas. In line with well established public service financial procedures, as set out by the Department of Finance, a small proportion of the budget is surrendered to the exchequer each year. The amounts in percentage terms were 2.16% in 2007, 0.8% in 2008 and 1.8% in 2009.