Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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614. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated expenditure of his Department in 2015, in tabular form; the budget for expenditure agreed at the start of the year for 2015; the extra expenditure or savings in this budget during the year to date; when and under what process this expenditure and these savings were approved; and his Department's budget for expenditure in 2016. [37257/15]

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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The Table below sets out details of the funding allocations that were made available to my Department, by Programme area, under the 2015 Revised Estimates for Public Services. The table also contains the corresponding provisions for 2016 as announced recently under Budget 2016.

The Deputy might note that the spending pattern to date in relation to the 2015 funding allocation in the Vote shows varying fluctuations in Programme outlays some of which are above the expenditure profile while others are below the projected level. The variation at this time is primarily due to timing factors relating to the drawdown and disbursement of the funds. Budget ceilings for the implementation and delivery of programmes and services have not been exceeded or altered. Such a position is reflective of the general spending pattern throughout any given year which will give rise to variations against spending profile at any given time. My Department will be continuing to monitor expenditure across all programmes between now and the end of the year.