Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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284. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the gross voted current expenditure in each year since 2010; the annual percentage increase or decrease in each year; the gross voted capital expenditure in each year since 2010; the annual percentage increase or decrease in each year in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25716/18]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The following table shows the trend in total gross voted expenditure, gross voted current expenditure and gross voted capital expenditure from 2010 to 2018. Figures presented for 2010 – 2016 are based on the Appropriation Accounts, while figures for 2017 are the Provisional Outturn amounts notified by Departments. The 2017 Provisional Outturn does not include any amount in respect of capital carryover spent in 2017. Capital expenditure of €74 million was carried over from 2016 into 2017. 2018 figures presented here are as set out in the 2018 Revised Estimates Volume (REV).

A number of technical adjustments are reflected in the table below. At the beginning of 2015 the HSE Vote was disestablished, with voted funding for the HSE now provided from the Department of Health Vote. As a consequence of this change, certain items, amounting to approximately €1 billion in 2014, previously accounted for as appropriations-in-aid in the HSE Vote are collected directly as income by the HSE and reflected in the HSE accounts. This impacts on the year-on-year change between 2014 and 2015. Adjusting to allow a like-for-like comparison, the year-on-year change between 2014 and 2015 is 2.8% for gross voted expenditure. REV 2018 saw a significant technical adjustment relating to the funding of domestic water services. Following enactment of the Water Services Act 2017 all motor tax receipts are being paid into the Exchequer rather than the Local Government Fund and all State funding for domestic water services is now provided from voted expenditure by the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government. This technical change resulted in an increase of €500 million in gross voted capital expenditure and €292 million in gross voted current expenditure in REV 2018 relative to the amounts included in the Budget Estimates for 2018. Excluding this adjustment, the year-on-year increase in gross voted expenditure from 2017 to 2018 on a like-for-like basis would be c. 4%.