Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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732. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide this Deputy on a regular basis copies of the expenditure reports prepared by her Department for the management board meetings in the interests of openness, transparency and accountability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19926/17]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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In accordance with Public Financial Procedures, details of provisional capital and current expenditure in respect of my Department and all Government Departments are submitted to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on a monthly basis and published at Vote level on the Department of Finance’s website, . This process provides transparency on the level of expenditure incurred by Departments on an on-going basis. All expenditure by my Department is, moreover, subject to audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General and definitive annual outturn figures for my Department on a subhead by subhead basis are made available in the Annual Appropriation Account for my Department, which is published by the Comptroller and Auditor General.

Expenditure reports prepared for meetings of my Department’s Management Board are interim reports designed to support the effective management and operations of the Department. Figures in these reports are provisional and may be subject to modification,including through necessary adjustments identified by the Management Board.

Other mechanisms in the democratic processes, including Dáil Questions, are available to the Deputy if he is seeking specific information on particular items of expenditure in my Department’s Vote.