Maureen O'Sullivan (Dublin Central, Independent)
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144. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will publish a schedule of those instances, other than the restructuring of Citizens Information services and MABS by the Citizens Information Board, in which his Department and agencies under its aegis are committed to disbursing Exchequer funds to advance projects of which Dáil Éireann has formally expressed disapproval (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17662/18]

Maureen O'Sullivan (Dublin Central, Independent)
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145. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will publish a schedule of those instances, other than the restructuring of Citizens Information services and MABS by the Citizens Information Board, in which his Department and agencies under its aegis are committed to disbursing Exchequer funds in circumstances in which an Oireachtas Joint Committee has specifically recommended that the project in question does not proceed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17663/18]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 144 and 145 together.

The Deputy will be aware that CIB and MABs are under the aegis of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection.

In terms of my own Department and the bodies under its aegis, the Dáil allocates monies to them through the annual Estimates process. The allocations approved by the Oireachtas enable them to deliver the public services for which they have been given responsibility.

More generally, each Minister and their Departments are responsible for the effective management of the delivery of public services within the budgetary allocations assigned to them by the Estimates process as approved by the Dáil. My Department is in regular contact during the year with all other Government Departments and Offices to ensure that expenditure is being managed within the overall fiscal parameters approved by the Oireachtas.