Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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1911. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of the original capital allocation to her Department in 2022 that was transferred to current expenditure in 2023 by way of supplementary estimate; the reason for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1361/23]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The Department was provided with a supplementary estimate in November 2022, the main purpose of which was a substantive supplementary estimate of €10 million in current funding to facilitate the Community and Voluntary Sector Energy Support Scheme. This funding was additional non-core funding for the Department in 2022. The supplementary estimate also provided €150,000 in additional payroll funding due to the Building Momentum agreement.

The supplementary estimate also provided for two technical supplementary estimates. The first moved €4 million in capital funding to A.5 LEADER from A.7 Rural Regeneration and Development to meet additional demand under the LEADER programme from savings in A.7. The second moved €1.9 million from current to capital under the Dublin North East Inner City Initiative to account for the types of projects approved under that scheme in 2022.

The supplementary estimate did not provide for any 2022 capital funding to be transferred for current expenditure in 2023. However, provisional virement sanction was provided by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform for use of up to €10.5 million in capital to fund current expenditure for Ukrainian supports for use in 2022, of which approximately €7.5 million was utilised.