Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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405. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the underspend against profile by her Department at 30 November 2016, broken down by subhead in tabular form; the reason for the underspend; the projected outturn broken down the same way against the total revised estimate for the end of the year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39851/16]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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There is an underspend of approximately 13% against profile within my Department's Vote for the year to 30 November 2016.

All of the subheads showing an underspend against profile as at 30 November 2016 are listed in the table below. Expenditure profiles do not take account of virement of savings between subheads within my Department's Vote with the sanction of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

The underspend has occurred because of timing issues and also delays in the drawdown of funding in relation to

- the Arts Programme in respect of certain once-off Decade of Centenary projects; and

- the Rural and Regional Programme that transferred to my Department in June.

All expenditure within my Department's Vote continues to be carefully monitored to ensure the best use of available financial resources. All current funding is expected to be expended in full and no capital savings beyond those which can be carried forward by deferred surrender into 2017 are envisaged.