Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in Budget 2023 the non-pay allocation is €1,607.4 million whereas this was set at €1,612.2 million in the 2022 Expenditure report; the reason this is the case given the €98 million in additional resources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50536/22]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The Department of Further and Higher Education, Research Innovation and Science's non-pay allocation as at Budget 2022 was €1,647.9 million (€1,488.6 million core funding and €159.3 million temporary funding) and not €1,612.2 million as shown on Chart 1(a), page 59 of Part II - Expenditure Allocations 2022publication which was printed in error. This figure increased in our Revised Estimates Volume 2022 to €1,675.9 million (€1,502.1 million core funding and €173.8 million temporary funding).

This Department's non-pay allocation as at Budget 2023 is €1,607.4 million (€1,524.9 million core funding and €82.4 million temporary funding).

The movement from Revised Estimates 2022 to Budget 2023 is therefore a €22.8 million increase to core non-pay funding, from €1,502.1 million to €1,524.9 million.

The increase of €98 million referred to on page 111 of the Budget 2023 Expenditure Reportpublication refers to pay as well as non-pay, and is also gross of reprioritisation of savings within the 2022 core allocation which is included in the “Carryover and other ELS Pressures*” line.