Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 9 December 2021
165. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount expended by his Department in each of the past five years to date in 2021 on electricity costs in tabular form; and if he will provide an additional schedule that sets out all energy costs associated with their ICT hardware, that is, servers and so on in tabular form. [60935/21]
View answerAccommodation for my Department and its Offices is provided by the Office of Public Works (OPW) in buildings which are either State owned or leased by the OPW on our behalf. The Department and its Offices are located in 11 locations across the country in Dublin, Carlow, Cork, Ennis, Kilkenny and Sligo.
The Offices of the Department include:
- Companies Registrations Office (inc. the Registry of Friendly Societies and the Register of Beneficial Owners)
- The Intellectual Property Office of Ireland (IPOI)
- Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE)
- The Labour Court
- Workplace Relations Commission (WRC)
Typically, the Department and its Offices are in shared accommodation, either with other Government Departments, public bodies and/or the private sector. Bearing this in mind, and the differences in the range of facilities management systems in place across each of the occupied buildings, which are overseen by the OPW and/or by local Management Companies on behalf of the relevant landlord, it is not possible to extrapolate the ICT related costs from the overall electrical costs expended in each location.
The total electricity related costs borne across the Department's Vote, inclusive of the Offices, is set out in the table below. For additional context, these costs cover a staffing cohort of c. 850 to 900 each year or so over the period.
|
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 year to date |
|
|
Electricity costs (including ICT related) |
€334,159 |
€322,426 |
€298,551 |
€255,067 |
€234,309 |
