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Wednesday, 16 June 2021

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

Departmental Budgets

Photo of Gary GannonGary Gannon (Dublin Central, Social Democrats)
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125. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funds from the social housing budget returned unspent to the Exchequer from his Department in each of the years 2017 to 2020, in tabular form. [32490/21]

Photo of Darragh O'BrienDarragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department's Appropriation Accounts which are published by the Comptroller and Auditor General set out the full details of expenditure for the relevant years and can be found at by clicking on "Appropriation Accounts".

Summary details of the Allocations and Final outturn of expenditure for the years 2017-2020 are set out below:

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REV Allocation
Final Outturn
Deferred Surrender – capital carryover
Amount Surrendered to Exchequer
Amount related to Programme A - Housing
2020
€5,444m
€5,217m
€214m
€12.5m
€2.7m
2019
€3,937m
€3,897m
€33.5m
€6.5m
€0
2018
€3,331m
€3,317m
€0
€13m
€0
2017
€2,027m
€2,023m
€0
€4m
€0

Under Section 91 of the Finance Act, 2004, all or part of any unspent appropriations for capital supply services may be carried over for spending in the following year.

In 2019, unspent capital balances from the Urban Renewal & Regeneration Fund and the Land Development Agency amounting to €33.5m was carried over into 2020. The balance of €6.5m was surrendered to the Exchequer.

In 2020, as a result of the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on the construction sector there was a total surplus amounting to some €226.5m arising from unspent allocations in respect of the capital elements of Programmes A (Housing), B (Water), D (Planning) and F (Heritage) of which €214m was carried forward to 2021 while the remaining balance of €12.5m was surrendered to the Exchequer.

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