Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 9 December 2021
284. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the amount expended by her Department in each of the past five years to date in 2021 on electricity costs in tabular form; and if she 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. [60942/21]
View answerThe amount spent by my Department on electricity costs in each of the past five years to date in 2021 is set out in tabular form below. These costs relate to 12 premises which are used by my Department.
The Department cannot provide the energy costs in relation to our servers as these are hosted in the Revenue Data Centre. It is also not possible to quantify how much is spent on power for PCS and IT hardware, as these are not separately metered.
|
Year |
Electricity Costs |
|
2017 |
558,062 |
|
2018 |
559,535 |
|
2019 |
495,239 |
|
2020 |
465,017 |
|
2021 |
426,805 |
