Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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168. To ask the Minister for Finance the specific projects which will receive the €25 million in capital funding allocated in 2019; the amount each project will receive of the €25 million in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31291/18]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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A sum of €25 million is currently profiled as Capital for 2019 for the Finance Vote Group. Allocations are made under two Votes; €23 million to the Office of the Revenue Commissioners and €2 million to the Department of Finance.

My Department's Capital Allocation provides for the routine acquisition of IT equipment and systems and certain premises expenses relating to the buildings it occupies. Aside from these types of expenditure, my Department does not have any long or medium term Capital Projects.

At present, my Department has not made allocations beyond 2018 although some of the work currently in progress may not be complete by the end of the year. We will be setting our 2019 allocation during the Estimates process.

Revenue Commissioners:

Revenue’s Capital expenditure largely relates to expenditure on Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Continued investment in ICT has been a major driver of productivity growth in Revenue, as well as enabling better service levels for the public and enhanced governance. Every year Revenue needs to develop and implement a series of urgent ICT projects that ensure Revenue's ICT infrastructure can support budgetary and legislative changes as introduced by the Government or the EU, very frequently within tight timeframes. The €23 million can be summarised as follows: