Details of the travel and subsistence claims, mobile phone costs and other expenses recouped by Ministers and Ministers of State in my Department from 1 January 2007 to 9 March 2011 are set out below.
Year
|
Minister/Minister of State
|
Travel & Subsistence
|
Mobile Phone Costs
|
Other Recouped Expenses
|
2007
|
Minister, Dick Roche
|
€1,086.84
|
€2,985.28
|
Nil
|
|
Minister, John Gormley
|
€2,484.54
|
€1,061.49
|
Nil
|
|
Minister of State, Batt O’Keeffe
|
€34,237.03
|
€2,985.28
|
€45.90
|
|
Minister of State, Noel Ahern
|
€20,389.91
|
€1,166.18
|
Nil
|
|
Minister of State, Tony Killeen
|
€18,958.19
|
€1,839.92
|
€235.79
|
2008
|
Minister, John Gormley
|
€1,697.09
|
€3,585.96
|
€122.75
|
|
Minister of State, Batt O’Keeffe
|
€45,933.91
|
€1,703.75
|
Nil
|
|
Minister of State, Michael Finneran
|
€26,944.40
|
€781.68
|
Nil
|
|
Minister of State, Michael Kitt
|
€21,266.28
|
€1,279.77
|
Nil
|
|
Minister of State, Tony Killeen
|
€22,292.62
|
€1,637.53
|
Nil
|
2009
|
Minister, John Gormley
|
€2,154.07
|
€4,258.87
|
Nil
|
|
Minister of State, Michael Finneran
|
€36,573.27
|
€2,172.76
|
Nil
|
|
Minister of State, Michael Kitt
|
€16,674.44
|
€618.84
|
Nil
|
2010
|
Minister, John Gormley
|
€2,721.04
|
€4,228.81
|
Nil
|
|
Minister of State, Michael Finneran
|
€26,886.30
|
€3,058.5
|
Nil
|
|
Minister of State, Ciarán Cuffe
|
Nil
|
Nil
|
Nil
|
2011
|
Minister, John Gormley
|
Nil
|
€520.16
|
Nil
|
|
Minister, Eamonn O’Cuiv
|
Nil
|
Nil
|
Nil
|
|
Minister of State, Michael Finneran
|
€16,398.54
|
€1,002.70
|
Nil
|
|
Minister of State, Ciarán Cuffe
|
Nil
|
Nil
|
Nil
|
Travel and subsistence expenses are paid on the basis of recoupment claims submitted by an individual Minister or Minister of State, in accordance with the relevant circulars issued by the Department of Finance. The mobile phone costs outlined above were discharged directly by the Department, except in the case of Minister Gormley in 2007 and 2008 when the Department paid €416.77 and €545.22 in the respective years for such costs recouped to the Minister on the basis of a vouched claim. The other recouped expenses detailed above are entertainment costs incurred directly by the Minister or Minister of State where reimbursement was subsequently sought on the basis of vouched claims.
None of the costs outlined above were discharged on Departmental credit cards.