Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 313: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a list of all current time-related savings/delayed spending of Budget 2012 allocations on staff and or resources in his Department. [36719/12]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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The Gross Exchequer Allocation for 2012 for my Department's Vote is €881.553 million, which is spent across the Department's 3 key Programme Areas.

Gross expenditure across these Programmes to the end of June amounted to approximately €320 million which is 12% behind profile. This time-related difference is relative to the original profile prepared at the beginning of the year and is associated mainly with the timing of the drawdown of Capital funds by the enterprise and development agencies and the timing of the commencement of the enterprise Loan Fund Scheme which is expected to be in operation from early autumn.

My Department maintains an ongoing overview of expenditure and as the year progresses will be reviewing the expected outturn for the year end, with a view to identifying any potential savings or shortfalls on individual Programme lines.