Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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1034. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government 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. [37261/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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The Revised Estimates for Public Services 2015, published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, provide for gross expenditure of €1. 329 billion in respect of my Department in 2015, while the initial allocation provided for in the Abridged Estimates for Public Services 2016 is €1.4 96 billion gross . The 2015 estimates of expenditure are set out in the table beneath. At the end of October 2015 , spending by my Department amounted to €789 million. I expect significant further expenditure to take place by end 2015 - traditionally, a very significant proportion of the Department’s capital spend takes place in the final months of the year when projects and initiatives come to a conclusion. Where savings emerge in the finalisation of Department spending in 2015, consideration will be given, in consultation with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, to the appropriate use of the resources concerned.