Pearse Doherty
Question:103. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details of any fees paid to speakers at events during Ireland's EU Preseidency. [26640/13]
View answerTuesday, 11 June 2013
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The detailed organisation of events during the Presidency is the responsibility of the hosting Department and there is no centralised record of fees that might be paid to speakers. In the case of my own Department, no fees have been paid to speakers at events held in Ireland. However as part of the Presidency cultural programme fees have been paid in three instances as follows:
€250 for Dr Marie Bourke of the National Gallery of Ireland for a lecture at the Acropolis Museum in Athens on ‘Key Trends in European Museums of the 21st Century’ on 8 April 2013
€250 for Dr Marie Bourke of the National Gallery of Ireland for a lecture on the same topic at the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, on 10 April 2013
€200 for Dr. Donald M. MacRaild of University of Northumbria for a lecture given at the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies in Athens on ‘Periphery, Core and Diaspora – Irish and Greek Migration in the 19th and 20th Century’, on 18 April 2013.