Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 9 December 2021
219. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage 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. [60941/21]
View answerExpenditure on electricity costs for my Department are outlined in the following table:
|
Year |
Electricity costs |
|
2017 |
€246,719 |
|
2018 |
€257,974 |
|
2019 |
€254,185 |
|
2020 |
€749,576 |
|
2021 to date |
€718,112 |
It should be noted that the Heritage function transferred into my Department in September 2020. This transfer of functions added over 40 locations to my Department’s portfolio and the figures for 2020 include the full year’s electricity costs for all Departmental locations, including those related to Heritage and the National Parks and Wildlife Service.
It is not possible to provide a schedule or breakdown of energy costs solely associated with my Department's ICT systems.
