Appropriation Act 2018

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Number 33 of 2018


APPROPRIATION ACT 2018


CONTENTS

1. Issue of €1,000 out of Central Fund for year 2016

2. Appropriation of sums voted for supply services, totalling €50,922,732,000

3. Deferred surrender relating to capital supply services, totalling €93,009,000

4. Repayable advances from the Central Fund

5. Short title

SCHEDULE 1

PART 1

Excess For Year 2016

PART 2

Appropriation of Sums Voted for Supply Services

SCHEDULE 2

Deferred Surrender Relating to Capital Supply Services


Acts Referred to

Central Fund (Permanent Provisions) Act 1965 (No. 26)

Finance Act 2004 (No. 8)

Public Accounts and Charges Act 1891 (54 & 55 Vict. c. 24)

Social Welfare Acts

Superannuation Acts 1834 to 2004

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Number 33 of 2018


APPROPRIATION ACT 2018


An Act to apply a certain sum out of the Central Fund to the service of the year ended 31 December 2016 and to appropriate to the proper supply services and purposes sums granted by the Central Fund (Permanent Provisions) Act 1965 , to make provision in relation to deferred surrender to the Central Fund of certain undischarged appropriations by reference to the capital supply services and purposes as provided for by section 91 of the Finance Act 2004 and, for the purpose of maintaining a sufficient amount of moneys in the Paymaster General’s supply account so as to enable the discharge of particular liabilities, to make provision for repayable advances from the Central Fund.

[20th December, 2018]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows:

Issue of €1,000 out of Central Fund for year 2016

1. The Minister for Finance may issue out of the Central Fund and apply towards making good the supply granted for the service of the year ended on 31 December 2016 the sum of one thousand euro.

Appropriation of sums voted for supply services, totalling €50,922,732,000

2. (1) The sums granted by the Central Fund (Permanent Provisions) Act 1965 out of the Central Fund towards making good the supply granted, amounting in the aggregate to the sum of fifty thousand, nine hundred and twenty two million, seven hundred and thirty two thousand euro and comprising—

(a) the sum of one thousand euro for the service for the year ended on 31 December 2016, and

(b) the sum of fifty thousand, nine hundred and twenty two million, seven hundred and thirty one thousand euro for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2018,

are appropriated for the services and purposes expressed in Schedule 1.

(2) In addition to the grants out of the Central Fund referred to in subsection (1), there may be applied out of any money directed under section 2 of the Public Accounts and Charges Act 1891 to be applied as appropriations-in-aid of the grants for the services and purposes specified in Schedule 1, the sums respectively set out in the last column of that Schedule amounting in the aggregate to the sum of two thousand, five hundred and fifty seven million, two hundred and forty four thousand, two hundred and ninety nine euro.

Deferred surrender relating to capital supply services, totalling €93,009,000

3. For the purposes of section 91 of the Finance Act 2004 , in respect of certain undischarged appropriations by reference to the capital supply services and purposes included in a vote referred to in Schedule 1, there are set out in Schedule 2 the sums deferred into the year ending 31 December 2019, and the related votes and titles in respect of each of those sums, amounting in the aggregate to the sum of ninety three million and nine thousand euro.

Repayable advances from the Central Fund

4. (1) The Minister for Finance may, following a request from the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, and for the purpose of maintaining a sufficient amount of moneys in the Paymaster General’s Supply Account, having regard to the sums payable from that Account, put in place funding arrangements to—

(a) facilitate electronic funds transfers in respect of certain payments due on the 1st and 2nd day of January 2019, and

(b) facilitate certain payments, under the Social Welfare Acts, made on an agency basis by An Post payable between the 1st and the 4th day of January 2019.

(2) Amounts required by the Minister for Finance under subsection (1), which in aggregate shall not exceed €250 million, shall be advanced out of the Central Fund or the growing produce thereof.

(3) Any sums so advanced shall be repaid from the Paymaster General’s Supply Account to the Central Fund in January 2019.

Short title

5. This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act 2018.

SCHEDULE 1

PART 1

Excess For Year 2016

Sums not exceeding

Vote No.

Title

Supply Grants

Appropriations-in-aid

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

35

Sum granted to make good an excess on the grant for the Army Pensions Vote for the year ended 31 December 2016

1,000

22,299

Total of Part 1

1,000

22,299

PART 2

Appropriation of Sums Voted for Supply Services

Schedule of sums granted, and of sums which may be applied as appropriations-in-aid in addition to the sums granted, to defray the charges for the Public Services mentioned in column (2) to this Schedule which come in course of payment during the year ending 31 December 2018.

Sums not exceeding

Vote No.

Title

Supply Grants

Appropriations-in-aid

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

1

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Secretary General to the President, for certain other expenses of the President’s Establishment and for certain grants

4,321,000

97,000

2

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Secretary General to the President, for certain other expenses of the President’s Establishment and for certain grants

33,391,000

872,000

3

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Attorney General, including a grant

15,322,000

799,000

4

For the salaries and expenses of the Central Statistics Office

48,746,000

1,601,000

5

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions

43,502,000

964,000

6

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Chief State Solicitor

33,695,000

1,084,000

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

40,647,000

1,401,000

8

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General

7,927,000

6,050,000

9

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, including certain other services administered by that Office

356,879,000

68,621,000

10

For the salaries and expenses of the Tax Appeals Commission

1,626,000

81,000

11

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, for certain services administered by the Office of the Minister and for payment of certain grants

56,230,000

3,301,000

12

For pensions, superannuation, occupational injuries, and additional and other allowances and gratuities under the Superannuation Acts 1834 to 2004 and sundry other statutes; extra-statutory pensions, allowances and gratuities awarded by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform; fees to medical referees and occasional fees to doctors; compensation and other payments in respect of personal injuries; fees to Pensions Authority; miscellaneous payments etc.

366,151,000

218,750,000

13

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of Public Works; for services administered by that Office and for payment of certain grants and for the recoupment of certain expenditure

424,214,000

25,749,000

14

For the salaries and expenses of the State Laboratory

9,343,000

935,000

15

For Secret Service

1,000,000

16

For the salaries and expenses of the Valuation Office and certain minor services

10,440,000

1,147,000

17

For the salaries and expenses of the Public Appointments Service

13,359,000

239,000

18

For the salaries and expenses of the National Shared Services Office

43,267,000

5,492,000

19

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Ombudsman, the Office of the Commission for Public Service Appointments, the Standards in Public Office Commission, the Office of the Information Commissioner and the Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Information

11,177,000

420,000

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

1,601,522,000

124,898,000

21

For the salaries and expenses of the Prison Service, and other expenses in connection with prisons, including places of detention and for payment of certain grants

338,195,000

14,497,000

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

83,607,000

48,569,000

23

For the salaries and expenses of the Property Registration Authority

28,734,000

569,000

24

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Justice and Equality, Probation Service staff and of certain other services including payments under cash-limited schemes administered by that Office, and payment of certain grants

377,779,000

81,478,000

25

For the salaries and expenses of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and for payment of certain grants

6,588,000

115,000

26

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Education and Skills, for certain services administered by that Office, and for the payments of certain grants

9,338,247,000

481,795,000

27

For certain Official Development Assistance, including certain grants, and for contributions to certain International Organisations involved in Development Assistance and for salaries and expenses in connection therewith

514,306,000

1,170,000

28

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, and for certain services administered by that Office, including grants and contributions to International Organisations

192,898,000

45,243,000

29

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, including certain services administered by that Office, and for the payment of certain grants

343,083,000

237,855,000

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 of the Irish Land Commission 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

1,250,842,000

312,069,000

31

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, including certain services administered by that Office, for payment of certain grants and certain other services

2,048,808,000

24,477,000

32

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, 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

818,961,000

52,000,000

33

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, including certain services administered by that Office, and for payment of certain subsidies and grants

298,759,000

4,200,000

34

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, including grants to Local Authorities, grants and other expenses in connection with housing, water services, miscellaneous schemes, subsidies and grants

3,330,618,000

63,266,000

35

For retired pay, pensions, compensation, allowances and gratuities payable under sundry statutes to or in respect of members of the Defence Forces and certain other Military Organisations, etc., and for sundry contributions and expenses in connection therewith; for certain extra-statutory children’s allowances and other payments and for sundry grants

237,633,000

5,000,000

36

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Defence, including certain services administered by that Office; for the pay and expenses of the Defence Forces; and for payment of certain grants

686,813,000

20,535,000

37

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, for certain services administered by that Office, for payments to the Social Insurance Fund and for certain grants

10,766,125,000

203,305,000

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

15,526,909,000

450,221,000

39

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of Government Procurement

20,470,000

550,000

40

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, for certain services administered by that Office and for the payment of grants including certain grants under cash-limited schemes

1,379,010,000

24,515,000

41

For the salaries and expenses of the Policing Authority

3,286,000

61,000

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

208,301,000

23,231,000

Total of Part 2

50,922,731,000

2,557,222,000

Total of Schedule 1

50,922,732,000

2,557,244,299

SCHEDULE 2

Deferred Surrender Relating to Capital Supply Services

Schedule of sums included in Schedule 1 to this Act which the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform may determine by order under section 91 of the Finance Act 2004 , will be available for application towards making good supply in the year ended 31 December 2019 for the capital supply services and purposes in the Votes and corresponding Titles mentioned in columns (1) and (2).

Vote No.

Title

Sums for which surrender is deferred.

(1)

(2)

(3)

18

For the salaries and expenses of the National Shared Services Office

1,168,000

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

3,581,000

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

2,500,000

23

For the salaries and expenses of the Property Registration Authority

56,000

24

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Justice and Equality, Probation Service staff and of certain other services including payments under cash-limited schemes administered by that Office, and payment of certain grants

942,000

29

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, including certain services administered by that Office, and for payment of certain grants, and for the payment of certain grants under cash-limited schemes

15,000,000

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 of the Irish Land Commission and for payment of certain grants, subsidies and sundry grants and for the payment of certain grants under cash-limited schemes and the remediation of Haulbowline Island

22,000,000

31

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, including certain services administered by that Office, for payment of certain grants and certain other services

18,366,000

32

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, 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

27,600,000

33

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, including certain services administered by that Office, and for payment of certain subsidies and grants

700,000

37

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, for certain services administered by that Office, for payments to the Social Insurance Fund and for certain grants

1,000,000

39

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of Government Procurement

96,000

Total of Schedule 2

93,009,000