Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent)
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294. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the current and capital funding allocated to his Department; the underspend or overspend in 2015 to date, under each category, based on his Department's spending profile; the funding made available within and external to his Department's functions to support innovation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30128/15]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent)
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298. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total funds made available within his Department to support innovation, both within existing enterprise and new enterprise; the total funding made available within his Department for supporting enterprise and job creation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30256/15]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 294 and 298 together.

As published in the Revised Estimates Volume 2015, the total gross Exchequer provision to the Department to support the enterprise, job creation and innovation agendas for 2015 amounts to €810.18 million. This includes €20 million in capital carryover from 2014 for use in 2015.

The €810.18 million provision is broken down through a total capital allocation of €509 million and a current expenditure provision of €301.18 million.

The Deputy should note that the direct capital supports to industry and across Ireland’s research system are set out in the 2015 Revised Estimates Volume through two programme expenditure areas, namely "Expenditure Programme A – Jobs and Enterprise Development"and "Expenditure Programme B – Innovation". The respective 2015 capital allocations under these expenditure areas are set out in Tables 1 and 2 that follow.

Table 1: Programme A - Jobs and Enterprise Development

Table 2: Programme B - Innovation

Capital expenditure at the end of June 2015 amounted to €196.21 million. This is 6% ahead of the initial start-of-year profiled capital expenditure amount of €184.8 million for the first half of the year.

Current expenditure at the end of June 2015 amounted to €138m. This is 5% behind the initial start-of-year profiled current expenditure amount of €145.2 million for the first half of the year.