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

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