Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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864. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade 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. [37263/15]

Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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My Department manages two Votes – Vote 28Foreign Affairs and Trade and Vote 27 - International Cooperation. The 2015 allocation is outlined below:

A total of €686.62 million (gross) was provided to my Department of which €210 million was allocated to Vote 28 – and €476.62 million was allocated to Vote 27.

The Department has robust financial controls in place which are audited annually by the Comptroller and Auditor General's Office. These controls include an appropriate system of budgeting and regular expenditure reviews by senior management of expenditure performance against budget.

As part of the budgetary process, the Department has indicated to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform that it is likely to surrender €1.2m of the 2015 Capital Allocation which will not now be spent in the current year.

The Department is continuing to closely monitor expenditure to year-end under all subheads of Votes 27 and 28 and remains on target to spend the 2015 Current Expenditure Allocation. Additional expenditure for 2015 is not envisaged.

The Department’s gross Budget allocation for 2016 is outlined below: