Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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Question 201: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total allocated budget for his Department in 2011 and the actual outturns in each of his Department subheads at the end of 2011. [40396/11]

Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North-West Limerick, Fine Gael)
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A gross total of €269.089m was made available to my Department in the 2011 Revised Estimates Volume. Details of this allocation are available on the Department of Public Expenditures Website via the following link: http://per.gov.ie/estpubexp2011/

For the Deputy's convenience, details of the full year 2011 (and proposed 2012) allocations at subhead level are available on my Department's website via the following link: http://www.ahg.gov.ie/en/Publications/CorporatePublications/CurrentPublications/

With regard to the actual outturns for 2011, the Deputy will appreciate that there are a number of weeks remaining before the end of the year and that ongoing expenditure figures are provisional and subject to verification internally through my Department's financial management system and, ultimately, by the Comptroller and Auditor General. That said, expenditure to date remains more or less on profile and I am confident that close to the full available budget will be expended before year-end.