Brendan Griffin (Kerry South, Fine Gael)
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404. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she anticipates a budgetary surplus in her Department in 2014 as a result of rising employment and falling unemployment; the anticipated and actual spend in 2011, 2012 and 2013 in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8172/14]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The table below details the total expenditure allocation provided for the Department of Social Protection in the relevant Revised Estimates Volumes over the period from 2011 to 2014 inclusive, as well as the out-turn up to and including 2013. The outturn for 2013 is provisional and subject to reconciliation and audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General.

The 2014 estimate already takes into account a projected reduction in the Live Register in 2014, down from an average of 419,800 in 2013 to 390,000 this year.