Diplomatic Representation

Tuesday, 14 February 2012

Questions (89, 90)

Clare Daly

Question:

129 Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount that has been spent on Irish embassies, by location, for each of the past five years. [8025/12]

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Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (Deputy Eamon Gilmore)

Our Missions abroad are involved in a wide range of activities which include representing and advancing government policies with other States and in international organisations; economic and cultural promotion; frontline consular and passport services to Irish citizens overseas; engaging with Irish communities and harnessing the resource they offer in assisting economic recovery; and managing programmes, particularly in Irish Aid priority countries The budget of each overseas Mission for 2007 to 2011 is provided in the table below. These budgets are considered to be the locally-devolved administrative budget, including local staff salaries but not salaries of diplomatic staff, which are a charge on the Headquarters budget. Likewise, my Department's small capital budget is not allocated to missions on an ongoing basis but is managed from Headquarters.

The Missions highlighted in bold manage significant programmes on behalf of Irish Aid, funded from Vote 29. These budgets reflect the additional management and oversight required for the effective implementation of those important programmes.

Administrative Budget for Mission

	2007 €	2008 €	2009 €	2010 €	2011 €
	—	—	429,990	600,261	466,900
ABUJA	260,424	548,135	372,660	556,374	267,599
ADDIS ABABA	1,199,888	1,064,185	898,000	898,685	747,137
ANKARA	412,851	429,022	405,487	422,633	397,809
ATHENS	532,525	477,093	484,116	525,292	488,109
ATLANTA (opened 2010)	—	—	—	26,885	147,400
BEIJING	789,116	838,728	973,084	841,615	750,784
BERLIN	999,025	1,181,612	1,009,825	930,500	929,251
BERNE	331,968	463,006	507,174	450,170	445,899
BOSTON	365,638	353,824	472,391	392,032	344,629
BRASILIA	540,443	510,761	450,012	579,964	524,784
BRATISLAVA	384,325	380,840	416,857	354,215	377,803
BRUSSELS (EMBASSY and P.F.P.)	1,202,904	1,126,087	1,230,063	930,301	844,610
BRUSSELS (PR-EU)	3,582,121	3,457,843	3,805,678	4,194,314	3,307,842
BUCHAREST	566,044	577,947	484,421	457,869	485,075
BUDAPEST	485,572	511,156	495,581	444,950	465,593
BUENOS AIRES	351,725	372,254	383,751	454,202	426,217
CAIRO	445,209	569,536	500,311	460,651	396,657
CANBERRA	742,471	743,869	681,238	788,271	760,756
CARDIFF (closed 2009)	213,966	182,170	79,757	—	—
CHICAGO	383,173	358,542	325,799	342,853	340,825
COPENHAGEN	540,031	476,526	430,412	448,180	445,389
DAR ES SALAAM	819,916	1,242,513	1,049,784	720,238	878,000
DILI (due to close in 2012)	205,402	189,962	211,483	148,716	215,600
EDINBURGH	319,133	261,682	227,646	236,941	220,194
FREETOWN	197,673	204,871	215,114	199,440	537,000
GENEVA	1,124,538	1,096,146	1,134,003	1,142,564	1,282,450
HANOI	609,377	743,614	580,390	607,332	745,000
HELSINKI	655,345	634,690	637,618	539,507	539,283
HOLY SEE (closed 2012)	740,532	498,334	437,683	455,820	420,987
KAMPALA	1,376,603	1,915,553	1,338,000	1,140,515	1,231,532
KUALA LUMPUR	380,607	418,700	359,821	409,445	388,340
LILONGWE	413,536	717,165	623,196	445,750	644,185
LISBON	496,611	548,396	437,493	376,459	431,630
LJUBLJANA	454,887	489,219	428,186	451,370	427,868
LONDON (including Passport Office)	5,610,590	4,669,648	4,065,867	3,702,234	3,396,000
LUSAKA	1,293,799	1,499,747	1,586,698	1,097,048	1,324,700
LUXEMBOURG	716,923	709,845	738,042	724,074	435,287
MADRID	1,242,986	1,273,566	1,239,494	1,106,768	1,038,990
MAPUTO	1,377,425	1,717,913	1,427,000	983,406	1,086,500
MASERU	700,082	795,256	523,259	512,812	656,700
MEXICO	696,226	598,562	475,576	528,437	442,290
MOSCOW	970,958	896,238	873,407	1,064,758	766,233
NEW DELHI	669,453	839,809	611,455	967,485	704,242
NEW YORK — C.G.	2,281,554	1,903,026	1,920,283	1,915,099	1,836,245
NEW YORK- PMUN	2,443,225	2,681,0741	1,546,199	2,081,792	1,755,273
NICOSIA	406,801	428,485	417,208	419,656	365,313
OSCE — VIENNA	455,567	459,195	434,483	504,823	494,500
OSLO	715,292	787,891	634,870	601,640	615,300
OTTAWA	658,038	605,680	700,330	590,775	580,960
PARIS (incl OECD)	1,867,828	1,852,135	1,804,602	1,817,710	1,635,188
PRAGUE	524,173	573,544	604,233	612,292	598,634
PRETORIA	1,407,145	1,318,279	968,255	1,111,600	1,182,650
RAMALLAH	419,099	373,828	286,792	354,106	347,291
RIGA	437,135	438,808	372,586	360,659	210,748
RIYADH	404,299	386,430	547,777	381,231	347,071
ROME	1,292,690	1,270,120	1,202,705	1,180,581	1,193,087
SAN FRANCISCO	500,358	628,525	417,187	428,014	394,350
SEOUL	643,540	767,822	438,633	833,161	413,750
SHANGHAI	512,507	466,888	511,801	667,532	567,923
SINGAPORE	913,131	865,908	805,922	833,820	828,590
SOFIA	617,814	452,737	425,518	367,670	408,350
STOCKHOLM	458,461	426,780	435,176	591,585	616,107
STRASBOURG	523,150	454,730	439,469	424,895	422,091
SYDNEY	546,538	511,344	489,353	587,275	647,462
TALLINN	445,663	426,396	352,791	415,288	390,376
TEHRAN (due to close in 2012)	315,881	361,419	347,641	417,048	348,049
TEL AVIV	666,237	574,527	737,733	623,858	573,639
THE HAGUE	1,066,280	1,079,734	949,973	921,078	749,539
TOKYO	1,543,374	1,604,708	2,079,7742	1,637,651	1,888,548
VALLETTA	369,535	329,452	330,122	372,090	322,379
VIENNA	677,684	664,055	633,729	662,725	670,686
VILNIUS	677,347	545,639	452,692	425,124	416,380
WARSAW	909,879	996,352	713,657	842,848	754,711
WASHINGTON DC	1,540,392	1,268,050	1,250,786	1,329,159	1,149,777

Emmet Stagg

Question:

130 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of member states of the EU and other European nations that have embassies or consulates which serve the Vatican while simultaneously serving as diplomatic missions to other member states; the reasons the Vatican find this practice so unacceptable from the Republic of Ireland, in view of our grave financial predicament. [8151/12]

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Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (Deputy Eamon Gilmore)

There is no EU or other European State which has a resident Embassy or Consulate accredited to the Holy See which also serves as a diplomatic Mission to an EU Member State, although a number of Embassies accredited to the Holy See are also accredited to the Sovereign Order of Malta and/or San Marino. For what I understand are historical reasons, the Holy See does not accept accreditation from a resident Embassy that is also accredited to the Italian Republic.