An Act 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.

[16 th December, 2015]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows:

Appropriation of sums voted for supply services, totalling €43,133,538,000

1. (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 forty-three thousand, one hundred and thirty-three million, five hundred and thirty-eight thousand euro for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2015 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 (54 & 55 Vict. c. 24) 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 three thousand one hundred and fifty-eight million, one hundred and fifty-four thousand euro.

Deferred surrender relating to capital supply services, totalling €111,768,000

2. 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 2016, and the related votes and titles in respect of each of those sums, amounting in the aggregate to the sum of one hundred and eleven million, seven hundred and sixty eight thousand euro.

Repayable advances from the Central Fund

3. (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 the 4th day of January 2016, and

(b) facilitate certain payments, under the Social Welfare Acts, made on an agency basis by An Post payable between the 4th and the 8th day of January 2016.

(2) Amounts required by the Minister for Finance under subsection (1), which in aggregate shall not exceed €90 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 2016.

Short title

4. This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act 2015.

SCHEDULE 1

Appropriation of Sums Voted for Supply Services

Section 1

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 2015.

Sums not exceeding

Vote No.

Title

Supply Grants

Appropriations-in-aid

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

€

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

3,444,000

106,000

For the salaries and expenses of the Department of the Taoiseach, including certain services administered by the Department and for payment of grants

27,022,000

870,000

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

15,030,000

815,000

For the salaries and expenses of the Central Statistics Office

52,836,000

1,889,000

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

37,834,000

1,005,000

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

28,466,000

1,860,000

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

30,618,000

1,350,000

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

6,682,000

5,875,000

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

329,481,000

76,156,000

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Appeal Commissioners

775,000

48,000

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

40,610,000

3,880,000

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 Board; miscellaneous payments; etc.

386,770,000

124,230,000

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

369,848,000

27,526,000

For the salaries and expenses of the State Laboratory

8,049,000

851,000

For Secret Service

1,000,000

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

9,145,000

1,249,000

For the salaries and expenses of the Public Appointments Service

8,584,000

321,000

For the salaries and expenses of Shared Services

39,033,000

4,860,000

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

8,738,000

402,000

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

1,383,473,000

128,474,000

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

316,540,000

15,642,000

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

60,150,000

47,815,000

For the salaries and expenses of the Property Registration Authority

30,311,000

976,000

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

311,126,000

61,966,000

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

6,190,000

144,000

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

8,187,125,000

561,152,000

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

475,473,000

1,150,000

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

164,958,000

45,048,000

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, including certain services administered by that office, and for payment of certain grants, and for the payment of certain grants under cash-limited schemes

173,134,000

245,417,000

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

876,579,000

430,489,000

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

1,315,932,000

410,756,000

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Jobs, 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

790,412,000

49,774,000

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

272,829,000

4,605,000

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

1,281,399,000

47,558,000

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

222,090,000

5,400,000

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

639,404,000

37,887,000

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

11,367,263,000

264,375,000

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

12,821,200,000

520,721,000

For the salaries and expenses of the Office of Government Procurement

18,974,000

500,000

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

1,015,011,000

25,012,000

Total of Schedule 1

43,133,538,000

3,158,154,000

SCHEDULE 2

Deferred Surrender Relation to Capital Supply Services

Section 2

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 2016 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)
		€
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	115,000
9	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, including certain other services administered by that office	2,000,000
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	7,000,000
18	For the salaries and expenses of Shared Services	1,248,000
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	6,644,000
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	475,000
29	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, including certain services administered by that office, and for payment of certain grants, and for the payment of certain grants under cash-limited schemes	5,250,000
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	12,000,000
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	16,100,000
32	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Jobs, 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	10,000,000
33	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, including certain services administered by that office, and for payment of certain subsidies and grants	6,158,000
34	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, including grants to Local Authorities, grants and other expenses in connection with housing, water services, miscellaneous schemes, subsidies and grants	41,078,000
39	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of Government Procurement	200,000
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	3,500,000
	Total of Schedule 2	111,768,000

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