Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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1415. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the latest profiles in value and outruns forecast in his Department for the end of December 2017 and any variances that may arise based on his Department’s performance against profile in gross voted expenditure at the end of June 2017. [36575/17]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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Overall expenditure to end June is €660m which is €15m ahead of profiled spend. Current spend is €28m below profile, mainly due to timing issues in relation to a number of subheads. Capital expenditure is ahead by over €44m due to quicker than anticipated spend on a number of projects. I am pleased to say that progress on the Luas Cross City is more advanced than anticipated. As a result spending on this project is ahead by €33m. Overall pay spend is slightly ahead of profile mainly due to the earlier than expected payment of the Haddington Road pay increases initially profiled for September.

My Department keeps expenditure trends under review and provides details on monthly Exchequer Issues to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform that are reported in the Expenditure Reports published with the monthly Exchequer Statement. As the year progresses my Department will continue to manage expenditure within the allocation agreed by the Dáil in the 2017 Estimates.

My Department expects that the programmes we are working to deliver for our citizens will be delivered during the course of the coming months and that the remaining allocation of funding will be used before year end.