Appropriation Act 2018

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR No. 33/2018

Number 33 of 2018
APPROPRIATION ACT 2018
CONTENTS
1. Issue of €1,000 out of Central Fund for year 2016
2. Appropriation of sums voted for supply services, totalling €50,922,732,000
3. Deferred surrender relating to capital supply services, totalling €93,009,000
4. Repayable advances from the Central Fund
5. Short title
SCHEDULE 1
PART 1
Excess For Year 2016
PART 2
Appropriation of Sums Voted for Supply Services
SCHEDULE 2
Deferred Surrender Relating to Capital Supply Services
Acts Referred to
Central Fund (Permanent Provisions) Act 1965 (No. 26)
Finance Act 2004 (No. 8)
Public Accounts and Charges Act 1891 (54 & 55 Vict. c. 24)
Social Welfare Acts
Superannuation Acts 1834 to 2004
Number 33 of 2018
APPROPRIATION ACT 2018
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...