Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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84. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the allocation for capital spending by her department in 2017 including the carryover of expenditure from 2016; the amount spent to date broken down by the revised estimates subheads; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47857/17]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The 2017 capital allocation for my Department is €51.3 million as published in the Revised Estimates Volume 2017. In addition, a sum of €13.548 million is available by means of capital carryover from 2016.

All expenditure within my Department's Vote is subject to an ongoing internal verification and monitoring process to ensure the best use of available financial resources. Adjustments may fall to be made between subheads as part of this process and all figures are subject to audit by the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. Outturn figures on a subhead by subhead basis are therefore only made available in the Annual Appropriation Accounts which are published and made available on the website of the Comptroller and Auditor General.

Details of expenditure, at Vote level, in respect of my Department and all Government Departments are published by the Department of Finance. Details of provisional capital expenditure figures in respect of my Department at Vote level as of 31 October 2017 are due to be published shortly and will show that capital expenditure for my Department up to that date amounts to €31 million which represents 100% of profiled capital expenditure and 60% of the overall 2017 allocation.

In addition, the sum of €5.6 million has been spent in respect of capital carryover in the period to 31 October 2017.