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Appropriation Act 2012

Number 42 of 2012

APPROPRIATION ACT 2012

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1. Appropriation of sums voted for supply services, totalling €45,550,779,000.

2. Deferred surrender relating to capital supply services, totalling €107,237,000.

3. Financial resolutions passed by Dáil Éireann on 5 December 2012.

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	1965, No. 26
Finance Act 2004	2004, No. 8
Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1927	1927, No. 7
Public Accounts and Charges Act 1891	54 & 55 Vict., c. 24
Superannuation Acts 1834 to 2004

Number 42 of 2012

APPROPRIATION ACT 2012

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 TO MAKE PROVISION IN RELATION TO THE FINANCIAL RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY DÁIL ÉIREANN ON 5 DECEMBER 2012.

[21st December, 2012]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:

Appropriation of sums voted for supply services, totalling €45,550,779,000.

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-five thousand, five hundred and fifty million, seven hundred andseventy-nine thousand euro for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2012 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 four thousand and ninety-nine million, five hundred and nine thousand euro.

Deferred surrender relating to capital supply services, totalling €107,237,000.

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 is set out in Schedule 2 the sums deferred into the year ending 31 December 2013, and the related votes and titles in respect of each of those sums, amounting in the aggregate to the sum of one hundred and seven million, two hundred and thirty-seven thousand euro.

Financial resolutions passed by Dáil Éireann on 5 December 2012.

3.— (1) The legislation required to give effect to the financial resolutions passed by Dáil Éireann on 5 December 2012 and referred to in subsection (2) may, subject to the time period specified in section 4 of the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1927 , be enacted in the year 2013.

(2) The Financial Resolutions referred to in subsection (1) are as follows:

(a) Financial Resolution No. 1 (which relates to excise duty and an increase in the rates of alcohol products tax);

(b) Financial Resolution No. 2 (which relates to excise duty and an increase in the rates of tobacco products tax);

(d) Financial Resolution No. 4 (which relates to value-added tax and a decrease in the farmers flat-rate addition);

(e) Financial Resolution No. 5 (which relates to excise duty and an increase in the rates of motor tax and trade plate licences);

(f) Financial Resolution No. 6 (which relates to income tax and changes to top slicing relief from 1 January 2013);

(g) Financial Resolution No. 7 (which relates to the universal social charge and amendments to it from 1 January 2013);

(h) Financial Resolution No. 8 (which relates to income tax and a change in the specified rates for preferential loans);

(i) Financial Resolution No. 9 (which relates to tax relief for health insurance policies and applies the relief to the amount of the premium net of any risk equalisation credit);

(j) Financial Resolution No. 10 (which relates to Income Tax and provides for an increase of 3% in the rate of Deposit Interest Retention Tax);

(k) Financial Resolution No. 11 (which relates to Life Assurance Policies and Investment Funds and provides for an increase of 3% in the rates of Exit Tax on such products);

(l) Financial Resolution No. 12 (which relates to capital gains tax and an increase in the rate of capital gains tax);

(m) Financial Resolution No. 13 (which relates to capital acquisitions tax and an increase in the rate of capital acquisitions tax);

(n) Financial Resolution No. 14 (which relates to capital acquisitions tax and a reduction in the group tax-free thresholds relating to capital acquisitions tax).

Short title.

4.— This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act 2012.

SCHEDULE 1

Appropriation of Sums Voted for Supply Services

Section 1 .

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 2012.

Vote No.	Title	Sums not exceeding
		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	3,002,000	92,000
2	For the salaries and expenses of the Department of the Taoiseach, including certain services administered by the Department and for payment of grants and grants-in-aid	23,627,000	912,000
3	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Attorney General, including a grant-in-aid	14,997,000	788,000
4	For the salaries and expenses of the Central Statistics Office	43,502,000	1,900,000
5	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions	39,553,000	975,000
6	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Chief State Solicitor	32,952,000	1,860,000
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 and grants-in-aid	32,082,000	1,254,000
8	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of Comptroller and Auditor General	6,591,000	5,875,000
9	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, including certain other services administered by that Office	311,978,000	70,167,000
10	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Appeal Commissioners	477,000	32,000
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 and grants-in-aid	41,731,000	5,274,000
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 Board; miscellaneous payments, etc.	443,275,000	82,100,000
13	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of Public Works; for services administered by that Office including the National Procurement Service, for payment of certain grants and for the recoupment of certain expenditure	358,693,000	26,231,000
14	For the salaries and expenses of the State Laboratory	8,396,000	605,000
15	For Secret Service	1,000,000
16	For the salaries and expenses of the Valuation Office and certain minor services	8,548,000	2,174,000
17	For the salaries and expenses of the Public Appointments Service	6,626,000	254,000
18	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Commission for Public Service Appointments	784,000	30,000
19	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Ombudsman, the Standards in Public Office Commission, the Office of the Information Commissioner, and the Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Information	6,715,000	380,000
20	For the salaries and expenses of the Garda Síochána, including pensions, etc.; for the payment of certain witnesses’ expenses, and for payment of a grant-in-aid	1,334,042,000	133,641,000
21	For the salaries and expenses of the Prison Service, and other expenses in connection with prisons, including places of detention; for probation services; and for payment of a grant-in-aid	317,815,000	18,348,000
22	For such of the salaries and expenses of the Courts Service and of the Supreme Court, 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	59,775,000	48,315,000
23	For the salaries and expenses of the Property Registration Authority	32,661,000	1,169,000
24	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Justice and Equality, Probation Service staff and of certain other services including payments under cash-limited schemes administered by that Office, and payment of certain grants and grants-in-aid	331,220,000	46,639,000
25	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, including grants to Local Authorities, grants and other expenses in connection with housing, water services, miscellaneous schemes, subsidies and grants	1,273,624,000	62,490,000
26	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Education and Skills, for certain services administered by that Office, and for the payment of certain grants and grants-in-aid	8,062,710,000	608,933,000
27	For certain Official Development Assistance, including certain grants-in-aid, and for contributions to certain International Organisations involved in Development Assistance and for salaries and expenses in connection therewith	512,877,000	1,153,000
28	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, and for certain services administered by that Office, including grants-in-aid and contributions to International Organisations	181,783,000	44,048,000
29	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, including certain services administered by that Office, and for payment of certain grants and sundry grants-in-aid, and for the payment of certain grants under cash-limited schemes	193,734,000	243,676,000
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 of the Irish Land Commission and for payment of certain grants, subsidies and sundry grants-in-aid and for the payment of certain grants under cash-limited schemes	942,302,000	369,632,000
31	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, including certain services administered by that Office, for payment of certain grants, grants-in-aid and certain other services	1,595,378,000	449,808,000
32	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, including certain services administered by that Office, for the payment of certain subsidies, grants and a grant-in-aid, and for the payment of certain grants under cash-limited schemes	828,283,000	53,772,000
33	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, including certain services administered by that Office, and for payment of certain subsidies, grants and grants-in-aid	263,772,000	4,679,000
34	For the salaries and expenses of the National Gallery, including grants-in-aid	8,335,000	253,000
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	237,914,000	6,000,000
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-in-aid	647,020,000	40,925,000
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	14,082,935,000	235,464,000
38	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Health and certain other services administered by that Office, including miscellaneous grants	324,380,000	3,916,000
39	For the salaries and expenses of the Health Service Executive and certain other services administered by the Executive, including miscellaneous grants	12,520,933,000	1,513,522,000
40	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, for certain services administered by that Office, and for the payment of certain grants	414,757,000	12,223,000
	Total of Schedule 1 ...	45,550,779,000	4,099,509,000

SCHEDULE 2

Deferred Surrender Relating to Capital Supply Services

Section 2 .

Schedule of sums included in Schedule 1 to this Act which the Minister for Finance 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 2013 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)
		€
24	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Justice and Equality, Probation Service staff and of certain other services including payments under cash-limited schemes administered by that Office, and payment of certain grants and grants-in-aid	287,000
25	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, including grants to Local Authorities, grants and other expenses in connection with housing, water services, miscellaneous schemes, subsidies and grants	43,000,000
26	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Education and Skills, for certain services administered by that Office, and for the payments of certain grants and grants-in-aid	19,000,000
28	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, and for certain services administered by that Office, including grants-in-aid and contributions to International Organisations	400,000
29	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, including certain services administered by that Office, and for payment of certain grants and sundry grants-in-aid, and for the payment of certain grants under cash-limited schemes	10,400,000
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 of the Irish Land Commission and for payment of certain grants, subsidies and sundry grants-in-aid and for the payment of certain grants under cash-limited schemes	6,000,000
32	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, including certain services administered by that Office, for the payment of certain subsidies, grants and a grant-in-aid, and for the payment of certain grants under cash-limited schemes	25,000,000
33	For the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, including certain services administered by that Office, and for payment of certain subsidies, grants and grants-in-aid	1,200,000
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-in-aid	900,000
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	1,050,000
	Total of Schedule 2 ...	107,237,000