Appropriation Act 2020

Appropriation Act 2020 Skip to content Disclaimer Feedback Helpdesk Gaeilge Léim go dtí an t-ábhar Séanadh Aiseolas Deasc chabhrach English Gaeilge English Produced by the Office of the Attorney General Táirgthe ag Oifig an Ard-Aighne Home Legislation Acts of the Oireachtas Statutory Instruments Pre-1922 Legislation Constitution External Resources Bills (Houses of the Oireachtas) Iris Oifigiúil / Official Gazette Revised Acts (LRC) Classified List of Legislation (LRC) Translations (acts.ie) Translations (Houses of the Oireachtas) Government Publications for Sale EU Law (EUR-Lex) FAQ Disclaimer Feedback Helpdesk Search Baile Reachtaíocht Achtanna an Oireachtais Ionstraimí Reachtúla Reachtaíocht Réamh-1922 Bunreacht Acmhainní Seachtracha Billí (Tithe an Oireachtais) Iris Oifigiúil Achtanna Athbhreithnithe (CAD) (An Coimisiún um Athchóiriú an Dlí) Liosta Rangaithe Reachtaíochta Aistriúcháin (achtanna.ie) Aistriúcháin (Tithe an Oireachtais) Foilseacháin Rialtais ar Díol Dlí AE (EUR-Lex) CCanna (Ceisteanna Coitianta) Séanadh Aiseolas Deasc chabhrach Cuardach TitleTeideal Year(s) or rangeBliain nó blianta nó raon TypeCineál All Legislation Acts Statutory Instruments Advanced SearchCuardach Casta HomeBaile ActsAchtanna 2020 Appropriation Act 2020 Appropriation Act 2020 Permanent Page URL View by SectionAmharc de réir Ailt View Full ActAmharc ar an Acht Iomlán Bill History Stair Bille Commencement, Amendments, SIs made under the Act Tosach Feidhme, Leasuithe, IRí arna ndéanamh faoin Acht Open PDFOscail PDF Print Full ActPriontáil an tAcht Iomlán Number 29 of 2020 APPROPRIATION ACT 2020 CONTENTS 1. Appropriation of sums voted for supply services, totalling €69,697,158,000 2. Deferred surrender relating to capital supply services totalling €748,516,000 3. Repayable advances from Central Fund 4. Short title SCHEDULE 1 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 29 of 2020 APPROPRIATION ACT 2020 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. [21st December , 2020] Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: Appropriation of sums voted for supply services, totalling €69,697,158,000 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 sixty-nine thousand, six hundred and ninety-seven million, one hundred and fifty-eight 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 two thousand, six hundred and fifty-nine million, one hundred and ninety-seven thousand euro. Deferred surrender relating to capital supply services totalling €748,516,000 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 2021, and the related votes and titles in respect of each of those sums, amounting in the aggregate to the sum of seven hundred and forty-eight million, five hundred and sixteen thousand euro. Repayable advances from Central Fund 3. (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 4th day of January 2021, and (b) facilitate certain payments, under the Social Welfare Acts, made on an agency basis by An Post payable between the 1st and 5th day of January 2021. (2) Amounts required by the Minister for Finance under subsection (1), which in aggregate shall not exceed two hundred and eighty 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 2021. Short title 4. This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act 2020. 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 2020. 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 4,500,000 74,000 2 For the salaries and expenses of the Department of the Taoiseach, including certain services administered by the Department and for payment of grants 54,013,000 855,000 3 For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Attorney General, including a grant 16,180,000 705,000 4 For the salaries and expenses of the Central Statistics Office 65,690,000 1,320,000 5 For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions 43,968,000 845,000 6 For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Chief State Solicitor 37,381,000 810,000 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 38,573,000 1,310,000 8 For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General 9,116,000 6,031,000 9 For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, including certain other services administered by that Office 411,794,000 59,387,000 10 For the salaries and expenses of the Tax Appeals Commission 3,233,000 75,000 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 42,745,000 2,184,000 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 and other professional fees, miscellaneous payments etc. 375,517,000 264,600,000 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 490,427,000 15,000,000 14 For the salaries and expenses of the State Laboratory 10,271,000 1,046,000 15 For Secret Service 2,000,000 0 16 For the salaries and expenses of the Valuation Office and certain minor services 16,354,000 1,283,000 17 For the salaries and expenses of the Public Appointments Service 16,291,000 154,000 18 For the salaries and expenses of the National Shared Services Office 55,400,000 6,005,000 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 11,839,000 482,000 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 1,826,906,000 115,563,000 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 397,211,000 10,880,000 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 129,245,000 31,933,000 23 For the salaries and expenses of the Property Registration Authority 31,788,000 531,000 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 350,994,000 67,061,000 25 For the salaries and expenses of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and for payment of certain grants 6,733,000 81,000 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 8,378,554,000 331,931,000 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 549,702,000 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 225,444,000 44,701,000 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 488,923,000 25,224,000 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 1,402,659,000 354,255,000 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 3,028,511,000 22,323,000 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 1,855,169,000 52,708,000 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 754,609,000 248,296,000 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 5,410,287,000 57,910,000 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 254,150,000 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 756,961,000 24,070,000 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 17,132,485,000 218,190,000 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 20,412,200,000 463,222,000 39 For the salaries and expenses of the Office of Government Procurement 18,352,000 358,000 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 1,800,071,000 36,530,000 41 For the salaries and expenses of the Policing Authority 3,366,000 47,000 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 293,442,000 81,390,000 43 For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer 21,704,000 125,000 44 For the salaries and expenses of the Data Protection Commission 16,686,000 230,000 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 payment of certain grants 2,445,714,000 103,442,000 Total of Schedule 1 69,697,158,000 2,659,197,000 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 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 2021 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) € 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 20,000,000 17 For the salaries and expenses of the Public Appointments Service 200,000 18 For the salaries and expenses of the National Shared Services Office 1,435,000 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 12,750,000 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 5,468,000 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 4,895,000 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 3,900,000 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 37,747,000 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, subsidies and sundry grants and for the payment of certain grants under cash-limited schemes and the remediation of Haulbowline Island 31,600,000 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 151,480,000 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 106,200,000 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 16,892,000 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 214,000,000 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 910,000 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 107,000,000 39 For the salaries and expenses of the Office of Government Procurement 59,000 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 4,100,000 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 13,180,000 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 payment of certain grants 16,700,000 Total of Schedule 2 748,516,000 Privacy Statement Accessibility European Legislation Identifier (PDF) Open Data License Ráiteas Príobháideachais Inrochtaineacht Aitheantóir Eorpach Reachtaíochta (ELI) Ceadúnas Sonraí Oscailte Liosta Fianán © Government of Ireland. 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