Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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2017. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the capital expenditure of her Department at the end of August 2019 by subhead as compared with the Estimate for the full year; the reason for the slow spend to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34901/19]

Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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The 2019 capital allocation for my Department is €73.8 million. In addition, a sum of €0.7 million is available by means of capital carryover from 2018.

Details of provisional capital expenditure as of 31 August 2019 are detailed by subhead in the following table and show that total capital expenditure for my Department up to that date amounts to €35.9 million, representing 85% of profile and 49% of the overall 2019 allocation. In addition, the full sum of €0.7 million has been spent in respect of capital carryover. These figures are provisional as all expenditure within my Department's Vote is subject to an ongoing internal verification and monitoring process to ensure the best use of available financial resources. Adjustments may fall to be made between subheads as part of this process and all figures are subject to audit by the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General.

The nature of the work of the Department means that a greater percentage of capital expenditure occurs in the second half of the year. The under-spend relates largely to timing issues which it is anticipated will resolve before year end.