Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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Question 458: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of money yet to be spent before the end of 2011 under her Department's 2011 budget allocation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32280/11]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The Deputy might wish to note that the resource allocations made available to my Department under Vote 43 are contained in the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2011 as published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on 21 July 2011. This gross funding allocation in 2011 amounts to €230 million and this includes a current provision of €224 million and a capital allocation of €6 million. Expenditure to date across the various Subheads in the Vote amounts to €166 million leaving a residual sum of €64 million to be expended between now and the end of the year. Identified savings at this time amount to €3 million and this relates to the Constitutional Referendum on Children's Rights as no costs will arise this year in relation to the holding of the Referendum.