LegalizeAppropriation Act 2003
1 Appropriation of sums voted for supply services, viz., €31,040,999,000.
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 thirtyone thousand and forty million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand euro for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2003 are appropriated for the services and purposes expressed in the Schedule to this Act.
(2) In addition to the grants out of the Central Fund referred to in subsection (1) of this section, 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 the Schedule to this Act, the sums respectively set out in column (4) of that Schedule amounting, as appears thereby, in the aggregate to the sum of two thousand, six hundred and twenty-five million, one hundred and twenty-six thousand euro.
2 Financial resolutions passed by Dáil Éireann on 3 December 2003.
2.—(1) The legislation required to give effect to the financial resolutions passed by Dáil Éireann on 3 December 2003 and referred to in subsection (2) of this section may, subject to the time period specified in section 4 of the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1927 be enacted in the year 2004.
(2) The Financial Resolutions referred to in subsection (1) of this section are as follows:
(a) Financial Resolution No. 1 (which relates to an increase in the farmers flat rate and the livestock rate of Value-Added Tax);
(b) Financial Resolution No. 2 (which relates to an anti-avoidance measure regarding the reduced rate of Value-Added Tax on sites, when houses and sites are sold together);
(c) Financial Resolution No. 3 (which relates to excise duties on road diesel and petrol);
(d) Financial Resolution No. 4 (which relates to excise duties on tobacco).
3 Short title.
3.—This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act 2003.
SCHEDULE
Schedule of sums granted, and of sums which may be applied as appropriations-in-aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges for the several Public Services herein particularly mentioned which will come in course of payment during the year ending on 31 December 2003.
| 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 to the President, for certain other expenses of the President's Establishment and for certain grants... | 2,009,000 | |
| 2 | For the salaries and expenses of the Houses of the Oireachtas, including certain grants-in-aid, and for certain expenses in connection with the European Parliament............... | 81,387,000 | 408,000 |
| 3 | For the salaries and expenses of the Department of the Taoiseach, and for payment of grants and grants-in-aid...... | 25,808,000 | 50,000 |
| 4 | For the salaries and expenses of the Central Statistics Office......... | 34,277,000 | 1,532,000 |
| 5 | For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General | 7,015,000 | 3,399,000 |
| 6 | For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Finance, including the Paymaster-General's Office and for payment of certain grants and grants-in-aid | 114,324,000 | 134,000 |
| 7 | For pensions, superannuation, occupational injuries, and additional and other allowances and gratuities under the Superannuation Acts 1834 to 1963 and the Superannuation and Pensions Act 1976 and sundry other statutes; extra-statutory pensions, allowances and gratuities awarded by the Minister for Finance; fees to medical referees and occasional fees to doctors; compensation and other payments in respect of personal injuries; fees to Pensions Board; payments in respect of Pensions Benefit System; miscellaneous payments, etc....... | 203,265,000 | 31,607,000 |
| 8 | For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Appeal Commissioners...... | 561,000 | |
| 9 | For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, including certain other services administered by that Office............... | 308,611,000 | 31,975,000 |
| 10 | For the salaries and expenses of the Office of Public Works; for services administered by that Office including the Stationery Office as part of the Government Supplies Agency, and for payment of certain grants and grants-in-aid and for the recoupment of certain expenditure in connection with flood relief...... | 405,707,000 | 21,125,000 |
| 11 | For the salaries and expenses of the State Laboratory............... | 6,613,000 | 100,000 |
| 12 | For Secret Service......... | 831,000 | |
| 13 | For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Attorney General including a grant-in-aid............ | 13,949,000 | 13,000 |
| 14 | For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions... | 29,393,000 | 15,000 |
| 15 | For the salaries and expenses of the Valuation Office and certain minor services... | 9,215,000 | 1,466,000 |
| 16 | For the salaries and expenses of the Civil Service Commission and of the Local Appointments Commission...... | 11,408,000 | 200,000 |
| 17 | For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Ombudsman, the Standards in Public Office Commission and the Office of the Information Commissioner... | 5,038,000 | |
| 18 | For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Chief State Solicitor...... | 30,396,000 | 190,000 |
| 19 | For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, and of certain other services, including payments under cash-limited schemes administered by that Office, and payment of certain grants and grants-in-aid............... | 325,516,000 | 14,001,000 |
| 20 | For the salaries and expenses of the Garda Síochána, including pensions, etc.; for payments of compensation and other expenses arising out of service in the Local Security Force; for the payment of certain witnesses' expenses; and for payment of a grant-in-aid......... | 963,785,000 | 33,556,000 |
| 21 | For the salaries and expenses of the Prison Service, probation and welfare staff and other expenses in connection with prisons, including places of detention; for probation and welfare services; and for payment of a grant-in-aid...... | 337,268,000 | 1,325,000 |
| 22 | For such of the salaries and expenses of the Court Service and of the Supreme Court, 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 | 72,582,000 | 20,948,000 |
| 23 | For the salaries and expenses of the Land Registry and of the Registry of Deeds... | 32,150,000 | |
| 24 | For the salaries and expenses of the Charitable Donations and Bequests Office... | 413,000 | |
| 25 | For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, including grants to Local Authorities, grants and other expenses in connection with housing, and miscellaneous schemes, subsidies and grants......... | 2,311,624,000 | 29,887,000 |
| 26 | For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Education and Science, for certain services administered by that Office, and for payments of certain grants and grants-in-aid...... | 3,200,097,000 | 84,295,000 |
| 27 | For First-Level Education...... | 933,368,000 | 28,089,000 |
| 28 | For Second-Level and Further Education | 933,684,000 | 27,398,000 |
| 29 | For the payment of sundry grants and grants-in-aid in respect of Third-Level and Further Education......... | 647,832,000 | 2,000 |
| 30 | For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, including certain services administered by that Office, and for payment of certain grants and sundry grants-in-aid...... | 301,765,000 | 241,390,000 |
| 31 | For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Agriculture and Food, including certain services administered by that Office, and of the Irish Land Commission and for payment of certain grants, subsidies and sundry grants-in-aid and for the payment of certain grants under cash-limited schemes...... | 835,547,000 | 410,237,000 |
| 32 | 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 grants-in-aid and certain other services | 2,029,347,000 | 22,298,000 |
| 33 | For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Health and Children (including Oifig an Ard-Chláraitheora), and certain other services administered by that Office, including grants to Health Boards and miscellaneous grants... | 7,981,024,000 | 1,329,300,000 |
| 34 | 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, grants and grants-in-aid and for the payment of certain grants under cash-limited schemes | 1,086,654,000 | 119,572,000 |
| 35 | For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, including certain services administered by that Office, and for payment of certain subsidies, grants and grants-in-aid | 346,974,000 | 10,272,000 |
| 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-in-aid......... | 722,491,000 | 8,054,000 |
| 37 | 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 for sundry grants...... | 147,869,000 | 5,200,000 |
| 38 | For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and for certain services administered by that Office, including grants-in-aid and contributions to International Organisations | 178,825,000 | 800,000 |
| 39 | For certain Official Development Assistance, including certain grants-in-aid, and for contributions to certain International Organisations involved in Development Assistance............ | 374,009,000 | 127,000 |
| 40 | For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, for certain services administered by that Office, and for certain grants including a grant-in-aid...... | 5,612,889,000 | 131,040,000 |
| 41 | For the salaries and expenses of the National Gallery, including grants-in-aid | 8,436,000 | 1,000 |
| 42 | Le haghaidh thuarastail agus chostais Oifig an Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta, agus le haghaidh seirbhísí áirithe atá faoi riaradh na hOifige sin, lena n-áirítear deontais áirithe agus ildeontais-i-gcabhair......... | 266,942,000 | 15,120,000 |
| 43 | For grants (grants-in-aid) to An Chomhairle Ealaíon............ | 44,101,000 | |
| 44 | For the settlement of an equal pay claim | 36,000,000 | |
| Total of Schedule...... | 31,040,999,000 | 2,625,126,000 |
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