Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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127. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if any of her Department’s 2012 capital expenditure allocation was used for current expenditure purposes last year, the amount used for this purpose; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19221/13]

Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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128. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the month by month profile for her Department's 2013 capital expendiuture; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19237/13]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 127 and 128 together.

The Department of Social Protection’s capital allocation for 2012 was not used for current expenditure purposes in 2012. The table below details the monthly profile of the 2013 Capital Allocation for the Department of Social Protection. The total capital allocation provided for in the 2013 REV published last week is €10.5m. There is also provision in the REV for the carryover of €1.050m, which was unspent in 2012. It is proposed that €5m of this allocation will be used to cover the purchase of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) equipment, such as computer hardware and software, desktop and other infrastructural equipment. €5.1m of the allocation will be used to provide for the costs of new buildings and the refurbishment of other buildings. The carryover of €1.05m has also been assigned to this subhead. A major portion of this allocation will be used for the continued roll-out of the Intreo service. To date 12 offices are now providing the full Intreo service and it is expected that a total of 43 offices will be delivering the Intreo service by the end of 2013. The remainder of the allocation (€0.4m) has been allocated to the e-Government projects which have a public sector wide impact such as the continued roll-out of the Public Service Card.