Appropriation Act 2004

Type Act
Publication 2004-12-17
State In force
Reform history JSON API
1 Issue of €71,280 out of Central Fund for year 2003.

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 2003 the sum of seventy-one thousand, two hundred and eighty euro.

2 Appropriation of sums voted for supply services, totalling €33,074,174,280.

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 thirty-three thousand and seventy-four million, one hundred and seventy-four thousand, two hundred and eighty euro and comprising the sum of seventy-one thousand, two hundred and eighty euro for the service for the year ended on 31 December 2003 and the sum of thirty-three thousand and seventy-four million, one hundred and three thousand euro for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2004 are appropriated for the services and purposes expressed in Schedule 1 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 Schedule 1 to this Act, the sums respectively set out in the last column of that Schedule amounting in the aggregate to the sum of two thousand, eight hundred and ninety-nine million, six hundred and seventy-nine thousand, three hundred and eighty-three euro.

3 Deferred surrender relating to capital supply services, totalling €236,967,000.

3.—(1) 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 to this Act, there is set out in Schedule 2 to this Act the sums deferred into the year ending 31 December 2005, and the related votes and titles in respect of each of those sums, amounting in the aggregate to the sum of two hundred and thirty-six million, nine hundred and sixty-seven thousand euro.

4 Financial resolution passed by Dáil Éireann on 1 December 2004.

4.—(1) The legislation required to give effect to the financial resolution passed by Dáil Éireann on 1 December 2004 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 2005.

(2) The Financial Resolution referred to in subsection (1) of this section is Financial Resolution No. 1 (which relates to an increase in the farmers flat rate and the livestock rate of Value-Added Tax).

5 Short title.

5.—This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act 2004.

SCHEDULE 1

PART 1 Excess for Year 2003

Sums not exceeding
Vote No. Title Supply Grants Appropriations-in-aid
(1) (2) (3) (4)
16 Sum granted to make good an excess on the grant for the Civil Service Commission for the year ended 31 December 2003 46,177 35,383
17 Sum granted to make good an excess on the grant for the Office of the Ombudsman for the year ended 31 December 2003 25,103
Total of Part 1: 71,280 35,383

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 2004

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 2,221,000
2 For the salaries and expenses of the Department of the Taoiseach, including certain services administered by the Department and for payment of grants and grants-in-aid 37,585,000 50,000
3 For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Attorney General including a grant-in-aid 13,765,000 3,000
4 For the salaries and expenses of the Central Statistics Office 36,408,000 1,232,000
5 For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General 7,759,000 3,354,000
6 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 and grants-in-aid 127,342,000 412,000
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. 229,416,000 35,644,000
8 For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Appeal Commissioners 571,000
9 For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, including certain other services administered by that Office 329,553,000 36,267,000
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 for the recoupment of certain expenditure in connection with flood relief 438,230,000 19,873,000
11 For the salaries and expenses of the State Laboratory 16,186,000 100,000
12 For Secret Service 767,000
13 For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Chief State Solicitor 29,356,000 250,000
14 For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions 32,122,000 15,000
15 For the salaries and expenses of the Valuation Office and certain minor services 9,498,000 1,517,000
16 For the salaries and expenses of the Public Appointments Service 11,764,000 200,000
17 For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Ombudsman, the Standards in Public Offices Commission and the Office of the Information Commissioner 5,517,000 5,000
18 For the salaries and expenses of the National Gallery, including grants-in-aid 8,602,000 1,000
19 For the salaries and expenses 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 339,098,000 19,341,000
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 witness' expenses; and for payment of a grant-in-aid 1,069,777,000 37,455,000
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 345,726,000 1,371,000
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 75,708,000 23,200,000
23 For the salaries and expenses of the Land Registry and of the Registry of Deeds 33,558,000
24 For the salaries and expenses of the Charitable Donations and Bequests Office 411,000
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, miscellaneous schemes, subsidies and grants 2,309,788,000 27,893,000
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 payment of certain grants and grants-in-aid 6,454,881,000 225,464,000
27 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-áiritear deontais áirithe 289,631,000 19,998,000
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-in-aid and contributions to International Organisations 163,240,000 43,728,000
29 For certain Official Development Assistance, including certain grants-in-aid, and for contributions to certain International Organisations involved in Development Assistance and for the salaries and expenses in connection therewith 400,030,000 132,000
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 257,582,000 208,346,000
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 926,077,000 479,141,000
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 1,981,961,000 24,333,000
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 8,664,272,000 1,415,000,000
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 payment of certain subsidies, grants and grants-in-aid and for the payment of certain grants under cash-limited schemes 1,124,471,000 89,217,000
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 444,387,000 6,600,000
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 697,656,000 37,292,000
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 159,604,000 5,400,000
38 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 15,999,368,000 136,810,000
39 For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Commission for Public Service Appointments 215,000
Total of Part 2: 33,074,103,000 2,899,644,000
Total of Schedule 1: 33,074,174,280 2,899,679,383

SCHEDULE 2 Deferred Surrender Relating to Capital Supply Services

Schedule of sums included in Schedule 1 to this Act which the Minister for Finance may determine by order under section 91 of the Finance Act 2004, will be available for application towards making goods supply in the year ended 31 December 2005 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)
21 For the salaries and expenses of the Prison Services, 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 4,880,000
22 For the salaries and expenses of the Court Services 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 1,600,000
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, miscellaneous schemes, subsidies and grants 75,601,000
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 payment of certain grants and grant-in-aid 50,000,000
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 10,000,000
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 grant-in-aid and for the payment of certain grants under cash-limited schemes 17,949,000
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 grant-in-aid, and certain other services 42,700,000
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 34,237,000
Total of Schedule 2: 236,967,000

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