Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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150. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department spent its full capital allocation of €505 million for 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5091/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The Further Revised Estimates Volume for Public Services 2016, published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, provided for gross capital expenditure of €505.244 million (inclusive of €32m in unspent funding from 2015) in respect of my Department in 2016.

The provisional gross capital outturn for my Department was €496.029 million last year. €464m ( 94% of total spend) was expended in support of a range of capital housing programmes. No savings arose in the overall housing capital provision; in fact, €3 million in savings from other programmes in my Department were applied to supplement the 2016 housing capital provision.

The main source for the Capital savings in 2016 were in the Water, Community and Administration programmes.