LegalizeAppropriation Act 2018
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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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