IE-2015-act-48 — Appropriation Act 2015

Appropriation of sums voted for supply services, totalling €43,133,538,000 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 forty-three thousand, one hundred and thirty-three million, five hundred and thirty-eight thousand euro for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2015 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 (54 & 55 Vict. c. 24) 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 one hundred and fifty-eight million, one hundred and fifty-four thousand euro. Deferred surrender relating to capital supply services, totalling €111,768,000 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 31 December 2016, and the related votes and titles in respect of each of those sums, amounting in the aggregate to the sum of one hundred and eleven million, seven hundred and sixty eight thousand euro. Repayable advances from the 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 the 4th day of January 2016, and (b) facilitate certain payments, under the Social Welfare Acts, made on an agency basis by An Post payable between the 4th and the 8th day of January 2016. (2) Amounts required by the Minister for Finance under subsection (1) , which in aggregate shall not exceed €90 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 2016. Short title 4. This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act 2015.