Written answers

Tuesday, 5 November 2013

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Departmental Expenditure

Photo of Mary Lou McDonaldMary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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131. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's Budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47078/13]

Photo of Eamon GilmoreEamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has responsibility for Vote 27 -International Cooperation, and Vote 28 - the Departmental vote. Budget 2014 provides a gross allocation to the Department in respect of both Votes in the sum of € 693 m, consisting of € 687 m in current expenditure and € 6.5 m in capital expenditure. The main monetary effect year-on-year therefore is a reduction in overall terms of € 22 m compared with the 2013 Estimate, as revised.

This is accounted for by the reduction in the overall allocation for Vote 27 in respect of Development Cooperation; the absence of provision under Vote 28 in respect of the EU Presidency following its successful completion in 2013; and reductions in pay affecting staff across both Votes in line with the terms of the Haddington Road Agreement.

The Department is currently in the process of finalising its detailed budgets and profiles for 2014 based on the needs of the programmes for which it is responsible and the overall allocations made on Budget Day.

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