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.

[15th December, 2023]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows:

Appropriation of sums voted for supply services, totalling €79,861,942,000

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 seventy-nine thousand and eight hundred and sixty-one million, nine hundred and forty-two thousand euro 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 three thousand and six million, five hundred and ninety-four thousand euro.

Deferred surrender relating to capital supply services, totalling €532,066,000

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 on 31 December 2024, and the related votes and titles in respect of each of those sums, amounting in the aggregate to the sum of five hundred and thirty-two million, and sixty-six thousand euro.

Repayable advances from Central Fund

3. (1) The Minister for Finance may, following a request from the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery 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 between the 1st and 2nd day of January 2024, and

(b) facilitate certain payments, under the Social Welfare Acts, made on an agency basis by An Post payable between the 1st and 6th day of January 2024.

(2) Amounts required by the Minister for Finance under subsection (1), which in aggregate shall not exceed four hundred and forty million euro, 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 2024.

Short title

4. This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act 2023.

SCHEDULE 1

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) of this Schedule which come in course of payment during the year ending 31 December 2023.

		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	5,091,000	83,000
2	For the salaries and expenses of the Department of the Taoiseach, including certain services administered by the Department and for payment of grants	38,746,000	789,000
3	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Attorney General, including a grant	26,836,000	705,000
4	For the salaries and expenses of the Central Statistics Office	72,452,000	1,640,000
5	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions	59,818,000	760,000
6	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Chief State Solicitor	49,498,000	891,000
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	46,405,000	910,000
8	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General	10,540,000	6,686,000
9	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, including certain other services administered by that Office	526,204,000	61,155,000
10	For the salaries and expenses of the Tax Appeals Commission	3,621,000	84,000
11	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, for certain services administered by the Office of the Minister and for payment of certain grants	51,298,000	3,025,000
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, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, fees to medical referees and occasional fees to doctors; compensation and other payments in respect of personal injuries; fees to Pensions Authority and other professional fees, miscellaneous payments, etc.	306,766,000	520,855,000
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	619,904,000	21,706,000
14	For the salaries and expenses of the State Laboratory	12,124,000	1,260,000
15	For Secret Service	2,000,000	0
16	For the salaries and expenses of Tailte Éireann, including a grant	84,104,000	1,820,000
17	For the salaries and expenses of the Public Appointments Service	21,299,000	306,000
18	For the salaries and expenses of the National Shared Services Office	72,189,000	6,579,000
19	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Ombudsman, the Office of the Commission for Public Service Appointments, the Office of the Protected Disclosures Commissioner, the Standards in Public Office Commission, the Office of the Information Commissioner and the Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Information	13,421,000	476,000
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	2,193,947,000	130,388,000
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	430,274,000	11,586,000
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	144,961,000	36,713,000
23	For the salaries and expenses of An Coimisiún Toghcháin, including a grant	5,681,000	53,000
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	452,723,000	117,094,000
25	For the salaries and expenses of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and for payment of certain grants	8,299,000	120,000
26	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Education, for certain services administered by that Office, and for the payments of certain grants	10,470,276,000	404,118,000
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	740,486,000	1,030,000
28	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and for certain services administered by that Office, including grants and contributions to International Organisations	321,628,000	72,000,000
29	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications, including certain services administered by that Office, and for payment of certain grants	1,994,051,000	10,615,000
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	2,024,405,000	231,010,000
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	3,572,282,000	25,455,000
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	1,549,493,000	71,921,000
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	928,666,000	252,843,000
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	6,400,741,000	67,924,000
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	289,375,000	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	890,455,000	24,907,000
37	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	12,600,766,000	307,034,000
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	21,954,423,000	438,371,000
39	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of Government Procurement	21,718,000	525,000
40	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, for certain services administered by that Office and for the payment of grants	7,152,544,000	31,959,000
41	For the salaries and expenses of the Policing Authority and for the payment of certain grants	4,143,000	70,000
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	395,081,000	44,900,000
43	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer	45,189,000	197,000
44	For the salaries and expenses of the Data Protection Commission	26,622,000	285,000
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 payments of certain grants	3,221,397,000	90,746,000
	Total of Schedule 1	79,861,942,000	3,006,594,000

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, National Development Plan Delivery 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 2024 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	110,000
18	For the salaries and expenses of the National Shared Services Office	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	18,300,000
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	2,950,000
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	6,687,000
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	1,413,000
29	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications, including certain services administered by that Office, and for payment of certain grants	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	46,000,000
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	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	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	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	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	70,000,000
39	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of Government Procurement	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	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 payments of certain grants	40,091,000
	Total of Schedule 2	532,066,000

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