Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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36. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the expenditure profile for his Department up to the end of June 2013. [36079/13]

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Monthly profiles for expenditure and receipts are in place in my Department and performance against profile is reported regularly to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and published by the Department of Finance as part of the Monthly Exchequer Statement. The Monthly Exchequer Statement for June has been published on the website of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. In some areas, expenditure and receipts are evenly distributed throughout the year. In other areas there are considerable variations that are foreseeable. The profiles as far as possible takes account of known variations.

At the end of June, my Department had spent €314m out of a total net voted allocation for 2013 of €670m. This represents 46% of the net annual allocation. It is expected that the year-end out-turn will be close to or within the overall net voted amount. At the end of June, receipts classed as Appropriations-in-Aid were ahead of profile, largely due to increased passport fee receipts.