Written answers
Tuesday, 11 July 2017
Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
Budget 2017
Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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180. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the 2018 and estimated full year cost of all additional expenditure commitments announced as part of budget 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32237/17]
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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Page 36 of Expenditure Report 2017 provided an estimate of €473 million in respect of the full-year impact of Budget 2017 current expenditure measures. This has been reproduced in the table.
| €m | 2018 Additional Impact |
|---|---|
| Social Protection | 170 |
| Gross Cost of Social Protection Package | |
| Education | 98 |
| Funding for new measures | |
| Health | 97 |
| Existing service including 1,200 additional staff and new measures | |
| Housing | 44 |
| Funding primarily for the Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness (net of transfer from Department of Social Protection) | |
| Children and Youth Affairs | 64 |
| Additional funding including for Single Affordable Childcare Scheme | |
| Total | 473 |
As these estimates relate to measures being implemented in 2017, they will be impacted by the actual cost and timing of implementation and consequently the estimated costs will be reassessed as part of the Budget Estimates process.
The Deputy will be aware that, as noted in the Expenditure Report 2017, under the Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, the Government has committed to a 2018 capital ceiling of €1,113 million for the Department of Housing, Planning, Community & Local Government, an increase of €325 million on the capital ceiling for 2018 published in the Expenditure Report.
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