S.I. No. 100/2024 - Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to Central Fund) Order 2024

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 22nd March, 2024.

WHEREAS section 91 of the Finance Act 2004 (No. 8 of 2004) makes provision for the carryover from one year to another of any unspent Exchequer capital allocations, up to a maximum of 10 per cent of the capital allocation by Vote;

AND WHEREAS the functions of the Minister for Finance under the said section 91 have been transferred to the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform pursuant to the Finance (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) (No. 2) Order 2011 ( S.I. No. 480 of 2011 ) (as adapted by the Public Expenditure and Reform (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2023 ( S.I. No. 19 of 2023 ));

AND WHEREAS the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform made a determination for the purposes of subsection (2) of the said section 91 in respect of certain undischarged appropriations by reference to the capital supply services and purposes included in a vote referred to in Schedule 1 to the Appropriation Act 2023 (No. 38 of 2023);

AND WHEREAS there is set out in Schedule 2 to the Appropriation Act 2023 the sums deferred into the year ending 31 December 2024 and the related Votes and Titles in respect of each of the sums concerned;

AND WHEREAS, pursuant to subsection (4) of the said section 91, a draft of the following order has been laid before Dáil Éireann and a resolution approving of the draft has been passed by Dáil Éireann in the financial year immediately following the financial year in respect of which the undischarged appropriations concerned relate;

NOW I, PASCHAL DONOHOE, Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 91 (4) of the Finance Act 2004 and the Finance (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) (No. 2) Order 2011 (as adapted by the Public Expenditure and Reform (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2023 ( S.I. No. 19 of 2023 )), hereby order as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to Central Fund) Order 2024.

2. The sums set out in column (5) of the Schedule, amounting in the aggregate to €519,716,000 are determined to be available for making good supply in the year ending 31 December 2024 for the capital supply services and purposes by reference to the Vote Number, Title, Capital Subheads and Descriptions mentioned in columns (1), (2), (3) and (4), respectively, of that Schedule, opposite the amount mentioned in column (5) in respect of each Capital Subhead.

SCHEDULE

Article 2

Details of sums determined for the purposes of Article 2

Vote No. (1)	Title (2)	Capital Subhead (2)	Description (4)	Sums deferred under section 91 of the Finance Act 2004 (5) €
7	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Finance, including the Paymaster - General’s Office, for certain services administered by the Office of the Minister and for payment of certain grants	A.2	Administration – Non-Pay	110,000
7			Total under Vote No. 7	110,000
18	For the salaries and expenses of the National Shared Services Office	A.3	Financial Management Shared Services Project	1,200,000
18			Total under Vote No. 18	1,200,000
20	For the salaries and expenses of the Garda Síochána, including pensions, etc. for the payment of certain witnesses’ expenses, and for payment of certain grants	A.7	Aircraft	8,000,000
		A.12	Capital Building Programme	7,000,000
			Total under Vote No. 20	15,000,000
22	For such of the salaries and expenses of the Courts Service and of the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, the High Court, the Special Criminal Court, the Circuit Court and the District Court and of certain other minor services as are not charged to the Central Fund	A.3	Courthouses	1,000,000
22			Total under Vote No. 22	1,000,000
24	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Justice, Probation Service staff and of certain other services including payments under cash - limited schemes administered by that Office, and payment of certain grants	A.21	Forensic Science Ireland	1,400,000
24			Total under Vote No. 24	1,400,000
29	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications including certain services administered by that Office, and for payment of certain grants	A.9	Shared Island Fund	1,800,000
29			Total under Vote No. 28	1,800,000
30	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, including certain services administered by that Office, and for payment of certain grants and subsidies and for the payment of certain grants under cash-limited schemes and the remediation of Haulbowline Island	A.3	Food Safety, Animal and Plant Health and Animal Welfare	2,600,000
		B.5	Development of Agriculture and Food (Farm)	18,000,000
		B.10	Forestry and Bio Energy	18,000,000
		D.3	Fisheries	7,000,000
			Total under Vote No. 30	45,600,000
31	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Transport, including certain services administered by that Office, for payment of certain grants and certain other services	A.4	Greenways	30,000,000
		B.3	Public Service Provision Payments	825,000
		B.4	Public Transport Investment	39,000,000
		C.4	Regional and Local Roads Investment	34,500,000
		C.7	EV Grants and Infrastructure	16,350,000
		D.3	Regional Airports	8,245,000
		E.3	IRCG	6,000,000
		F.3	Digital Hub	4,000,000
		F.5	Research Programmes	2,000,000
			Total under Vote No. 31	140,920,000
32	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, including certain services administered by that Office, for the payment of certain subsidies and grants and for the payment of certain grants under cash-limited schemes	A.5	IDA Ireland	15,305,000
		A.7	Enterprise Ireland	4,695,000
			Total under Vote No. 32	20,000,000
33	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media including certain services administered by that Office, and for payment of certain subsidies and grants	A.8	EU Just Transition Fund	4,380,000
		B.7	Cultural Infrastructure and Development	7.800,000
		C.3	Gaeltacht Support Schemes	650,000
		C.4	Irish Language Support Schemes	1,000,000
		C.8	Údarás na Gaeltachta – Grants for Projects and Capital Expenditure on Premises	500,000
		C.9	Cross Border Cooperation / Comhoibriú Thuaidh Theas	350,000
		D.7	Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund	6,800,000
			Total under Vote No. 33	21,480,000
34	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage including grants to Local Authorities, grants and other expenses in connection with housing, water services, miscellaneous schemes, subsidies, grants and payment of certain grants under cash-limited schemes	A.3	Local Authority Housing	95,000,000
		A.35	Secure Tenancy Affordable Rental Scheme	20,000,000
		B.5	Uisce Éireann	11,300,000
		C.7	Shared Island LA Development Fund	1,700,000
		D,9	Urban Renewal / Regeneration	8,700,000
		F.5	National Heritage (National Parks and Wildlife)	1,300,000
		F.8	Peatlands Restoration, Conservation and Management	3,000,000
			Total under Vote No. 34	141,000,000
38	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Health and certain other services administered by that Office, including grants to the Health Service Executive and miscellaneous grants	M.2	Buildings and Equipment (Health Facilities)	70,000,000
38			Total under Vote No. 38	70,000,000
39	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of Government Procurement	A.3	Procurement, Consultancy and Other Costs	115,000
39			Total under Vote No. 39	115,000
42	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Rural and Community Development including certain services administered by that Office and for the payment of grants	B.14	Ukraine Supports Community Fund	20,000,000
42			Total under Vote No. 42	20,000,000
45	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science for certain services administered by that Office, and for the payment of certain grants	B.5	Shared Services	7,763,000
		B.12	Research Activities	3,000,000
		B.16	Third Level Infrastructure	20,932,000
		C.3	Science and Technology Development Programme	6,000,000
		C.4	Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions	1,600,000
		C.5	Subscriptions to International Organisations etc.	796,000
			Total under Vote No. 45	40,091,000
TOTAL OF SCHEDULE				519,716,000

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GIVEN under my Official Seal,

19 March, 2024.

PASCHAL DONOHOE,

Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform.