Appropriation Act 2023

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Appropriation of sums voted for supply services, totalling €79,861,942,000 2. Deferred surrender relating to capital supply services, totalling €532,066,000 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 38 of 2023 APPROPRIATION ACT 2023 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. [15th December, 2023] Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: Appropriation of sums voted for supply services, totalling €79,861,942,000 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 seventy-nine thousand and eight hundred and sixty-one million, nine hundred and forty-two 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 three thousand and six million, five hundred and ninety-four thousand euro. Deferred surrender relating to capital supply services, totalling €532,066,000 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 2024, and the related votes and titles in respect of each of those sums, amounting in the aggregate to the sum of five hundred and thirty-two million, and sixty-six thousand euro. Repayable advances from Central Fund 3. (1) The Minister for Finance may, following a request from the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery 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 between the 1st and 2nd day of January 2024, and (b) facilitate certain payments, under the Social Welfare Acts, made on an agency basis by An Post payable between the 1st and 6th day of January 2024. (2) Amounts required by the Minister for Finance under subsection (1), which in aggregate shall not exceed four hundred and forty 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 2024. Short title 4. This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act 2023. 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 2023. 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 5,091,000 83,000 2 For the salaries and expenses of the Department of the Taoiseach, including certain services administered by the Department and for payment of grants 38,746,000 789,000 3 For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Attorney General, including a grant 26,836,000 705,000 4 For the salaries and expenses of the Central Statistics Office 72,452,000 1,640,000 5 For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions 59,818,000 760,000 6 For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Chief State Solicitor 49,498,000 891,000 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 46,405,000 910,000 8 For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General 10,540,000 6,686,000 9 For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, including certain other services administered by that Office 526,204,000 61,155,000 10 For the salaries and expenses of the Tax Appeals Commission 3,621,000 84,000 11 For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, for certain services administered by the Office of the Minister and for payment of certain grants 51,298,000 3,025,000 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, National Development Plan Delivery 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. 306,766,000 520,855,000 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 619,904,000 21,706,000 14 For the salaries and expenses of the State Laboratory 12,124,000 1,260,000 15 For Secret Service 2,000,000 0 16 For the salaries and expenses of Tailte Éireann, including a grant 84,104,000 1,820,000 17 For the salaries and expenses of the Public Appointments Service 21,299,000 306,000 18 For the salaries and expenses of the National Shared Services Office 72,189,000 6,579,000 19 For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Ombudsman, the Office of the Commission for Public Service Appointments, the Office of the Protected Disclosures Commissioner, the Standards in Public Office Commission, the Office of the Information Commissioner and the Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Information 13,421,000 476,000 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 2,193,947,000 130,388,000 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 430,274,000 11,586,000 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 144,961,000 36,713,000 23 For the salaries and expenses of An Coimisiún Toghcháin, including a grant 5,681,000 53,000 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 452,723,000 117,094,000 25 For the salaries and expenses of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and for payment of certain grants 8,299,000 120,000 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 10,470,276,000 404,118,000 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 740,486,000 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 321,628,000 72,000,000 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 1,994,051,000 10,615,000 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 2,024,405,000 231,010,000 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 3,572,282,000 25,455,000 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 1,549,493,000 71,921,000 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 928,666,000 252,843,000 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 6,400,741,000 67,924,000 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 289,375,000 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 890,455,000 24,907,000 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 12,600,766,000 307,034,000 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 21,954,423,000 438,371,000 39 For the salaries and expenses of the Office of Government Procurement 21,718,000 525,000 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 7,152,544,000 31,959,000 41 For the salaries and expenses of the Policing Authority and for the payment of certain grants 4,143,000 70,000 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 395,081,000 44,900,000 43 For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer 45,189,000 197,000 44 For the salaries and expenses of the Data Protection Commission 26,622,000 285,000 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 payments of certain grants 3,221,397,000 90,746,000 Total of Schedule 1 79,861,942,000 3,006,594,000 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, National Development Plan Delivery 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 2024 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) € 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 110,000 18 For the salaries and expenses of the National Shared Services Office 1,200,000 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 18,300,000 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 2,950,000 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 6,687,000 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 1,413,000 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 1,800,000 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 46,000,000 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 140,920,000 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 20,000,000 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 21,480,000 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 141,000,000 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 70,000,000 39 For the salaries and expenses of the Office of Government Procurement 115,000 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 20,000,000 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 payments of certain grants 40,091,000 Total of Schedule 2 532,066,000 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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