Written answers
Thursday, 25 November 2010
Department of Finance
Departmental Expenditure
5:00 pm
Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 88: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent of any over or under expenditure, capital or current, by Vote, heading or subheading to date in 2010 in tabular form; the reason for any surplus or shortfall; if expenditure to date in each case is in line with budgetary projections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44658/10]
Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The following table sets out the 2010 Budget Estimate for each Vote in the Finance Vote Group, together with the spend year to date, variance against published profile and an explanation of the reason for the variance.
| €'000 | Capital/Current | Full-year Estimate 2010 | Spend to date 2010 | (Under)/Over Spend compared to published profile year to date 2010 | In line with Budgetary Projections (Published Profile)?Brief Explanation |
| Vote 1: President's Establishment | Current | 3,171 | 2,397 | (611) | There are small spending variances across all subheads. |
| Capital | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/a | |
| Vote 5: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General | Current | 6,816 | 4,763 | (1,582) | The Office is currently projecting a net saving on the vote at the year- end of €932k. The forecasted surplus at year-end is mainly due to savings that arose due to the delay in filling staff vacancies and savings due to the timing of consultancy input required in our special reports. Other variations from profile are in relation to the timing of receipts and payments. |
| Capital | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/a | |
| Vote 6: Office of the Minister for Finance | Current | 76,075 | 45,042 | (17,279) | Spend is running behind profile but close to €9m of this is a timing issue that will reverse in December. We are projecting an end year saving compared to Budget Estimate of some €7m.€2.5m of this has been achieved through Administrative Pay savings and efficiencies achieved in the non-pay administrative budget area. A further €0.775m arises because of additional receipts under the Bank Guarantee Scheme over and above those projected at the time of the Budget. The remainder of the saving arises across all programmes, primarily as a result of slower than anticipated funding requirements. |
| Capital | 905 | 239 | (595) | Spend is behind profile due to a reduction of costs achieved through tendering processes and a slower than anticipated funding requirement on certain projects. | |
| Vote 7: Superannuation and Retired Allowances | Current | 396,753 | 324,969 | (29,621) | Spend under the Superannuation Vote is projected to be on profile at year end. |
| Capital | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/a | |
| Vote 8: Office of the Appeals Commissioners | Current | 550 | 447 | (103) | Expenditure to date is broadly in line with budgetary projections. A small end of year surplus on current expenditure will be maintained for balancing purposes. |
| Capital | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/a | |
| Vote 9: Office of the Revenue Commissioners | Current | 398,645 | 342,800 | (4,000) | The under-spend of €4m is a timing issue. It is expected that this will be reduced to circa. €2m by year-end. |
| Capital | 5,050 | 2,090 | (1,000) | This is a timing issue and the full amount of €5.05m will be spent by year-end. | |
| Vote 10: Office of Public Works | Current | 281,288 | 224,377 | (1,900) | Spend is running in line with Budgetary Projections |
| Capital | 178,391 (includes a capital carryover of €20,279k) | 128,253 | (9,700) | The primary saving on Vote 10 in 2010 relates to Subhead H2 Flood Risk Management. This was due to the delay in commencement of construction works on a number of flood relief schemes. In addition, a number of tender prices for major contracts were lower than anticipated.An application to carry forward €5m savings to the 2011 Estimate under the Deferred Surrender Scheme has been provisionally approved by the Department of Finance. | |
| Vote 11: State Laboratory | Current | 9,664 | 7,440 | (262) | Spend is running in line with Budgetary Projections. There will be a small surplus in A1 due to retirements. |
| Capital | 0 | 0 | N/a | ||
| Vote 12: Secret Service | Current | 1,000 | 970 | (30) | Funding under the Secret Service Vote is on profile. |
| Capital | 0 | 0 | N/a | N/a | |
| Vote 15: Valuation Office | Current | 11,543 | 8,607 | (1,012) | There are savings to date across all subheads A01 to A08 & Program Subheads B and C |
| Capital | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/a | |
| Vote 16: Public Appointments Service | Current | 8,321 | 6,376 | (1,945) | Savings arise from a reduction in large volume recruitment and in other areas such as advertising |
| Capital | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/a | |
| Vote 17: Office of the Commission for Public Service Appointments | Current | 928 | 493 | (338) | Savings year to date are €338k. |
| Capital | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/a | |
| Vote 11: Office of the Ombudsman | Current | 8,020 | 6,215 | (951) | The majority of the under-spend (€600k) arose in the area of pay, due to the non-filling of existing vacancies. |
| Capital | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/a |
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