Mattie McGrath (Tipperary South, Independent)
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331. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a list of items of expenditure for the €3 million in the Vote of his Department relating to the cost of holding the constitutional referendum on children’s rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36816/14]

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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The provision of €3 million in the Vote of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs for 2012 relating to the holding of a Constitutional Referendum on Children's Rights was utilised as follows:

€1.9 million was allocated to the Referendum Commission for the performance of its statutory functions. The details of the use of that allocation were set out in its post referendum report published by the Commission in May 2013. There was an unspent balance of €193,477.72 which was refunded to my Department in 2013 and surrendered to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform as an Extra Exchequer Receipt.

The balance of €1.1 million was available to fund my Department's public information activities. The breakdown of that expenditure is as follows.