Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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120. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of appropriations in aid in each Department; the relevant Department in each case; the 2019 allocation for each appropriation in aid broken down by capital and current expenditure; if he will provide similar data for 2015, 2016 and 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43068/18]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform databank, , sets out appropriations-in-aid for each Vote analysed between, non-pay, pay, pensions, and capital. Appropriations-in-aid are Departmental receipts which, as set out in Public Financial Procedures, need not be paid directly into the Exchequer, but which may be retained to defray the expenses of the Vote to which they refer.

These appropriations-in-aid therefore represent the difference between gross and net voted expenditure. As the Revised Estimates Volume for Public Services includes within the gross expenditure amounts for the Employment Affairs and Social Protection Group, and the Education and Skills Group, expenditure respectively of the Social Insurance Fund and the National Training Fund, this expenditure is also reflected within the overall appropriations-in-aid figures on the databank and in the following table.

A breakdown of appropriations-in-aid by Ministerial Vote Group from 2015 to 2019 is presented in the table. There have been transfers of functions and changes in Departmental responsibilities over this period and, as the table reflects the current Vote Group structure, this impacts on certain of the comparisons.

¹Provisional Outturn

²Revised Estimates Volume 2018

³Expenditure Report 2019

⁴ The reduction in A-in-As for the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport in 2018 is due to a change in the treatment of Motor Tax Receipts.

For information, the expenditure relating to the National Training Fund and the Social Insurance Fund that is included in the table above is set out separately in the following table.

¹Provisional Outturn

²Revised Estimates Volume 2018

³Expenditure Report 2019.