Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 13 January 2016
289. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of annual subscriptions to external membership bodies and groups his Department has including the cost and details. [46762/15]
View answerThe following table sets out the costs of Ireland’s membership subscriptions paid to external organisations through the Department’s Vote in 2015. Such organisations cover the areas of trade, research and innovation, intellectual property, competitiveness and employment rights.
|
Organisation |
Description |
2015 cost |
|
World Trade Organisation |
Payment of Ireland’s annual membership of the WTO. |
€2,018,914 |
|
OECD |
Ireland’s contribution to the Local Economic & Employment Development Programme. |
€29,000 |
|
OECD |
Ireland’s contribution to the Global Science Forum. |
€2,698 |
|
Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils |
Ireland’s contribution to the GFCC for membership. The annual cost is $10,000 US. The costs incurred in 2015 cover 2014 and 2015 membership. |
€19,129 |
|
European Space Agency |
Ireland’s annual membership and programme participation in ESA. |
€17,290,000 |
|
European Molecular Biology Conference |
Ireland’s membership contribution to the EMBC. The EMBC promotes excellence in fundamental basic research in Molecular biology and related fields across Europe. |
€190,107 |
|
European Molecular Biology Laboratory |
Ireland’s annual membership contribution to EMBL which is Europe’s flagship research laboratory for the Life Sciences. |
€1,115,882 |
|
EUREKA |
Ireland’s annual membership to EUREKA which is a close-to-market collaborative R&D programme operated on a pan-European basis. |
€25,990 |
|
COST – Co-operation in European Science & Technology |
Ireland’s membership in research and development networks spanning a range of scientific disciplines. The expenditure incurred in 2015 covers Ireland’s membership of COST to 2020. |
€11,202 |
|
World Intellectual Property Organisation |
Payment of Ireland’s annual membership of WIPO. |
€464,144 |
|
International Labour Organisation |
Ireland’s annual membership of the ILO. Cost includes a contribution to the ILO Training Centre (of €18,000). |
€1,545,000 |
|
European Association of Court Judges |
Ireland’s annual affiliation fee to the European Association of Labour Court Judges in respect of the Chair of the Employment Appeals Tribunal. |
€1,350 |
|
Hallmarking Convention Contributions |
Annual subscription by Ireland to the International Convention on the Control and Marking of Articles of Precious Metals. |
€8,737 |
Sanction has recently been provided by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for the Department to provide funding to support Ireland’s membership of CECAM (Centre European de Calcul Atomique et Moleculaire). CECAM is a pan-European network which supports joint research and collaboration in the field of computational simulation science. The annual cost of Ireland’s membership is €30,000.
