Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 12 November 2020
226. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department leases additional office space that is outside its departmental building and the estates section of the OPW; and, if so, the details of the lease including the terms of the lease, location, price and duration. [35875/20]
View answerIreland’s diplomatic and consular Missions are currently located in a total of 80 leased and 12 State-owned office premises. The terms and conditions of the 80 leases vary considerably in nature and detail depending on location and local law. In most instances, rents are paid monthly or quarterly although in some cases they are paid annually in advance. Many of our Mission premises also accommodate officials of other Government Departments and/or State Agencies that may share the rent and other costs.
Ireland’s diplomatic and consular Missions play a crucially important role in the achievement of our foreign policy and economic objectives. Since 2018, under the 'Global Ireland 2025' initiative, new Missions have been opened in Amman, Bogotá, Monrovia, Santiago de Chile and Wellington and new Consulates-General in Cardiff, Frankfurt, Los Angeles, Mumbai and Vancouver. New Missions are also planned for Kyiv, Manila and Rabat; and the Programme for Government also provides for the opening of a Consulate-General in the north of England and for the further strengthening of the diplomatic and State Agency network across the European Union and its neighbourhood.
The Global Ireland 2025 initiative will ensure that Ireland remains well placed to build the alliances necessary to advance our interests in the EU, while also further deepening our many other important relationships, most notably with the UK post-Brexit and with the US under President-elect Biden.
The amounts shown, by location, in the table below were charged to the office rental subheads of Votes 27 – Foreign Affairs and 28 – International Cooperation in 2019 and 2020 to-date.
|
Location |
2019 (€) |
2020 to-date (€) |
|
ABU DHABI |
80,065 |
0 |
|
ABUJA |
0 |
105,327 |
|
AMMAN |
136,579 |
101,597 |
|
ANKARA |
115,431 |
124,957 |
|
ARMAGH |
119,459 |
31,078 |
|
ATHENS |
85,496 |
70,657 |
|
ATLANTA |
77,991 |
64,369 |
|
AUSTIN |
79,343 |
43,762 |
|
BANGKOK |
91,621 |
82,469 |
|
BEIJING |
608,886 |
636,136 |
|
BELFAST |
157,672 |
156,606 |
|
BERLIN |
263,826 |
224,083 |
|
BERNE |
67,011 |
52,714 |
|
BOGOTA |
89,733 |
88,154 |
|
BOSTON |
139,270 |
173,610 |
|
BRASILIA |
73,582 |
50,505 |
|
BRATISLAVA |
90,585 |
96,071 |
|
BRUSSELS (EMBASSY) |
2,086 |
1,275 |
|
BRUSSELS (PfP) |
170,605 |
0 |
|
BRUSSELS (PR-EU) |
1,111,723 |
838,442 |
|
BUCHAREST |
99,069 |
90,079 |
|
BUDAPEST |
143,784 |
93,597 |
|
BUENOS AIRES |
156,641 |
131,838 |
|
CAIRO |
128,330 |
106,942 |
|
CANBERRA |
15,524 |
11,349 |
|
CARDIFF |
39,588 |
57,987 |
|
CHICAGO |
128,731 |
115,102 |
|
EDINBURGH |
59,072 |
49,094 |
|
FRANKFURT |
65,795 |
79,075 |
|
FREETOWN |
44,581 |
46,020 |
|
GENEVA |
335,998 |
292,638 |
|
HANOI |
214,092 |
242,542 |
|
HELSINKI |
125,140 |
123,096 |
|
HOLY SEE |
49,464 |
40,760 |
|
HONG KONG |
353,457 |
294,752 |
|
JAKARTA |
146,751 |
82,221 |
|
KAMPALA |
218,182 |
205,512 |
|
KUALA LUMPUR |
71,778 |
54,918 |
|
LILONGWE |
62,697 |
49,735 |
|
LISBON |
94,058 |
76,748 |
|
LJUBLJANA |
113,788 |
58,412 |
|
LONDON EMBASSY & CONSULAR OFFICE |
940,919 |
649,944 |
|
LOS ANGELES |
20,300 |
47,583 |
|
LUXEMBOURG |
45,976 |
38,414 |
|
MADRID |
219,718 |
164,780 |
|
MEXICO |
155,668 |
148,239 |
|
MONROVIA |
103,828 |
|
|
MOSCOW |
226,010 |
217,558 |
|
MUMBAI |
358,960 |
280,878 |
|
NAIROBI |
75,941 |
87,177 |
|
NEW DELHI |
303,900 |
311,923 |
|
NEW YORK - C.G. |
852,954 |
687,100 |
|
NEW YORK - PMUN |
1,008,666 |
924,817 |
|
NICOSIA |
42,000 |
31,500 |
|
OSLO |
202,987 |
159,256 |
|
OTTAWA |
93,163 |
86,125 |
|
PRAGUE |
160,332 |
145,906 |
|
PRETORIA EMBASSY & CAPE TOWN OFFICE |
138,132 |
122,616 |
|
RAMALLAH |
49,872 |
51,440 |
|
RIGA |
37,926 |
37,926 |
|
RIYADH |
145,374 |
0 |
|
ROME |
1,260 |
1,260 |
|
SAN FRANCISCO |
290,963 |
205,846 |
|
SANTIAGO |
134,839 |
88,615 |
|
SAO PAOLO |
48,114 |
35,293 |
|
SEOUL |
148,973 |
137,701 |
|
SHANGHAI |
303,857 |
251,208 |
|
SINGAPORE |
152,493 |
142,382 |
|
SOFIA |
65,016 |
72,761 |
|
STOCKHOLM |
186,633 |
170,650 |
|
SYDNEY |
262,897 |
267,591 |
|
TALLINN |
51,930 |
58,014 |
|
TEL AVIV |
137,550 |
90,558 |
|
TOKYO |
322,554 |
293,443 |
|
VALLETTA |
84,862 |
35,353 |
|
VANCOUVER |
61,632 |
222,653 |
|
VIENNA |
132,127 |
112,345 |
|
VIENNNA OSCE |
131,312 |
112,739 |
|
VILNIUS |
67,455 |
67,455 |
|
WARSAW |
180,572 |
87,973 |
|
WELLINGTON |
77,196 |
83,939 |
|
ZAGREB |
57,774 |
50,512 |
|
TOTAL |
14,310,119 |
12,025,699 |
