IE-2020-act-29 — Appropriation Act 2020

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.