Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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1198. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht 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. [37256/15]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Details of the annual funding allocation to my Department for 2015 are published in the annual Revised Estimates Volume which is available on the website of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform at .

Progress on spending across the Vote is monitored on a continuing basis through the year in order to ensure the optimal use of the available financial resources. While the potential for a limited capital carryover into 2016 remains under consideration, expenditure across my Department's Vote in 2015 is broadly on target and is expected to remain so to year-end. If required, I may seek to vire any modest savings which emerge within certain subheads to meet pressures on other subheads. This is in line with Public Financial Procedures and under the specific authority of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.

Details of the actual outturn for my Department at subhead level for 2015 will be published in due course in the Annual Appropriation Account and will be available on the website of the Comptroller and Auditor General as was the case for previous years.

The overall spending allocation for my Department for 2016 was recently published in Part IV of the Estimates for Public Service 2016 and is available at