Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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151. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the expenditure profile for his Department at the end of September 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38309/14]

Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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The Department of Foreign Affairs Group’s profiled budget to end of September 2014 is €560,186m and the actual spend to end of September 2014 is €506,610m resulting in a period variance of €53,576m.

These variances in the main arise in Vote 27 and are due to timing differences between the planned or profiled draw down of funding by implementing partners and the actual drawn down demands to date. My Department continues to operate within the budget allocation.