Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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269. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has sought permission from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to carry over unspent capital to 2019; if so, the amount sought as a carryover; the reason this was necessary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52398/18]

Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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The carryover of unspent capital monies from one year into the next is at the discretion of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and is also subject to approval by the Dáil. The level of carryover to be approved, if any, is also at that Minister's discretion.

Any application from my Department to carryover unspent capital monies from 2018 to 2019 will fall to be assessed by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and if approved, published as part of the Revised Estimates for 2019 later this month.  At the time of publication the carryover amount and the subhead designation will be provisional and will need to be confirmed by Ministerial Order no later than 31 March 2019.

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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270. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of capital allocated to her Department in 2018; the amount spent to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52399/18]

Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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The 2018 capital allocation for my Department is €54.3 million as published in the 2018 Revised Estimates is contained in the following link:

Details of capital expenditure by my Department and all Government departments are published by the Department of Finance on a monthly basis at  

Capital expenditure to 31 October 2018 for my Department amounted to €32 million - approx. 80% of profile.  All expenditure within my Department's Vote will continue to be carefully monitored between now and year end to ensure the best use of available financial resources.

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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271. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the current and capital funding allocated for each scheme and programme in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 under her Department or the bodies under the remit of her Department; and the amount expended in each such year to date in 2018 for each scheme in tabular form. [52400/18]

Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy will appreciate my Department operates a wide range of funding schemes across all areas of the Departments' remit.

In view of this and because of the wide range of my Department’s schemes and programmes, along with those schemes administered by bodies under the aegis if my Department, it is not possible to provide the information sought. However, if the Deputy has specific queries relating to a particular programme or grant, I will endeavour to provide her with relevant information in that regard.

Details of funding allocations and awards are published on my Department's website at from time to time. In common with all Government Departments, details of annual expenditure are also included in the annual Appropriation Accounts. 

Details of 2019 allocations across all programme areas and subheads will be available as part of the 2019 Revised Estimates due to be published  by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform later this month.

For the Deputy's convenience a summary of the various funding areas and the links to detailed information in respect of funding available from my Department is set out in the following table.