Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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919. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated expenditure of her 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 her Department's budget for expenditure in 2016. [37260/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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A full breakdown of my Department's 2015 expenditure allocation is contained in the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2015 on pages 102-109.The full version is available on the website of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

My Department's Vote is coming under pressure in 2015 and may require a Supplementary Estimate. This is mainly as a result of additional retirements in the Education Sector over and above those provided for, additional Special Needs Assistants posts that were sanctioned in mid-year and other mostly demographic pressures.

Should a Supplementary Estimate be required, my Department with the agreement of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, will seek the approval of the Dáil for the additional monies required before it exceeds its original 2015 Allocation.

The breakdown of my Department's 2016 expenditure allocation is contained in the Budget 2016 documentation published on the Government's Budget 2016 website, at . (Pages 52-52 of document titled 'Part IV - Estimates for Public Services 2016'). A further breakdown of this allocation will be available when the 2016 Revised Estimates for Public Services are published later this year.