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Tuesday, 30 May 2023

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Peadar Tóibín

Question:

122. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to provide a breakdown in tabular form for each of the past five years the total cost and expenditure for operating each Irish Embassy abroad as incurred by his Department. [25986/23]

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Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs

The Department of Foreign Affairs manages a total of 99 Missions overseas, including Embassies, Consulates General, Permanent Representations and a small number of other offices. The operating costs for each Mission in the years 2018 to 2022 are provided below. These operating cost include the salaries of Irish Civil Servants posted to these missions, which are incurred and paid in Ireland, but are included in these mission operating costs in accordance accounting convention.

Location	2018 (€)	2019 (€)	2020 (€)	2021 (€)	2022 (€)
Abu Dhabi	1,110,480	1,131,808	1,099,015	1,136,889	1,358,051
Abuja	938,788	834,700	890,481	929,482	1,132,762
Addis Ababa	1,903,975	1,854,670	1,469,974	1,853,299	2,023,280
Amman	114,612	917,937	604,054	1,540,431	999,791
Ankara	718,141	728,243	706,461	767,543	806,224
Athens	727,029	715,903	586,039	690,469	760,065
Atlanta	473,641	548,486	523,049	465,607	623,875
Austin	457,201	501,311	505,837	551,738	603,198
Bangkok	642,148	736,130	716,656	788,913	750,304
Beijing	2,231,038	2,279,695	2,312,668	2,308,008	2,797,682
Berlin	1,926,977	1,982,236	2,003,552	2,012,646	2,205,192
Berne	744,130	816,364	817,566	837,267	915,293
Bogotá	3,821	983,493	1,038,456	871,269	958,412
Boston	794,698	747,512	688,986	697,480	927,461
Brasilia	503,789	650,921	566,783	592,062	664,104
Bratislava	334,695	423,915	481,259	501,673	557,548
Brussels - Embassy	681,300	638,431	657,188	645,218	701,641
Brussels - Partnership For Peace Delegation	444,173	427,598	348,582	322,376	334,973
Brussels - Permanent Representation To The EU	10,041,995	10,132,322	10,007,800	10,318,316	13,649,732 (includes €2.2 million in respect of Ireland's contribution to EU translation services)
Bucharest	509,969	502,855	484,994	481,061	553,796
Budapest	602,936	620,843	554,328	607,739	661,259
Buenos Aires	650,524	715,105	757,519	848,007	761,460
Cairo	847,094	879,976	809,370	804,074	882,148
Canberra	1,108,225	1,114,042	1,141,912	1,039,906	1,044,656
Cardiff	972	253,938	322,689	308,736	388,637
Chicago	633,627	685,424	616,764	647,551	768,627
Copenhagen	707,667	663,027	605,280	613,951	606,414
Dakar					41,637
Dar es Salaam	1,388,158	1,453,901	1,090,947	1,277,096	1,482,169
Edinburgh	492,413	525,048	530,021	623,752	685,400
Frankfurt	84	173,625	420,269	471,155	612,307
Freetown	767,725	781,239	718,022	722,749	857,322
Geneva	1,951,574	2,001,373	2,127,799	2,142,329	2,185,039
Hanoi	1,364,849	1,428,464	1,316,922	1,291,622	1,404,760
Helsinki	800,984	854,712	746,454	868,648	894,117
Holy See	385,912	386,173	376,584	398,558	386,658
Hong Kong	1,103,285	1,225,933	1,205,373	1,111,971	1,255,884
Jakarta	522,750	790,671	580,654	686,098	834,223
Kampala	1,467,180	1,375,412	1,363,542	1,452,637	1,594,719
Kuala Lumpur	473,766	469,630	462,377	465,188	435,694
Kyiv				257,200	930,011
Lilongwe	1,071,933	1,109,678	1,055,834	1,052,817	1,214,386
Lisbon	625,428	655,235	644,259	637,520	650,299
Ljubljana	515,783	532,356	511,251	505,664	523,409
London	5,901,602	6,674,906	6,604,225	6,724,335	7,110,537
Los Angeles		181,080	477,985	539,097	672,072
Lusaka	895,725	906,566	740,640	878,159	1,289,171
Luxembourg	418,201	456,228	545,095	581,294	612,820
Lyon					100,308
Madrid	1,295,627	1,338,773	1,429,006	1,465,130	1,510,855
Manchester			-	147,639	390,504
Manila			-	248,235	602,486
Maputo	1,304,327	1,387,035	1,301,639	1,307,402	1,588,834
Mexico	931,333	981,385	954,467	836,998	1,272,926
Miami					103,193
Monrovia	7,670	450,898	577,162	671,685	829,693
Moscow	1,008,214	1,007,999	815,655	809,939	951,751
Mumbai	23,967	803,968	744,133	715,143	779,332
Nairobi	899,731	903,499	1,032,896	1,203,911	1,131,638
New Delhi	892,369	896,275	1,128,478	700,985	1,054,392
New York - Consulate General	2,638,405	2,829,662	2,807,116	2,864,253	3,642,368
New York - Permanent Mission to the UN	4,042,332	4,520,983	5,149,562	8,026,405	8,962,511
Nicosia	377,526	415,832	439,968	447,369	488,193
Oslo	848,401	801,349	662,977	811,527	832,778
Ottawa	915,955	862,948	924,249	951,132	1,311,207
Paris - Embassy	3,061,695	3,224,828	3,424,071	3,685,580	3,686,054
Paris - Permanent Representation to the OECD and UNESCO *					370,071
Prague	693,353	656,206	683,743	668,705	741,743
Pretoria	1,385,563	1,405,480	1,309,013	1,496,945	1,525,334
Rabat				143,657	545,105
Ramallah	451,603	790,418	885,551	1,127,468	1,197,037
Riga	299,366	300,186	369,238	395,269	450,024
Riyadh	668,935	853,160	840,450	876,796	1,047,902
Rome	1,146,677	1,363,829	1,316,519	1,305,945	1,488,100
San Francisco	934,685	1,054,957	1,022,131	1,317,075	1,343,701
Santiago	29,042	591,479	603,884	615,955	677,604
Sao Paolo	429,340	456,824	380,687	404,528	516,012
Seoul	676,026	848,582	777,812	787,942	856,675
Shanghai	931,023	986,672	925,925	973,798	1,605,095
Singapore	877,997	926,097	917,895	970,553	1,043,483
Sofia	525,374	523,529	536,981	535,901	555,312
Stockholm	704,442	708,456	743,623	880,718	955,371
Strasbourg	635,939	626,949	570,536	617,418	747,031
Sydney	705,021	742,309	758,750	857,933	864,528
Tallinn	366,861	382,426	377,332	421,510	423,595
Tehran				66,205	256,436
Tel Aviv	965,706	1,016,261	1,078,024	1,159,115	1,258,590
The Hague	1,034,303	1,096,259	1,156,440	1,259,543	1,415,745
Tokyo	1,893,990	2,383,094	2,428,609	2,657,641	2,614,753
Toronto					248,366
Valletta	356,789	375,477	484,939	489,733	511,765
Vancouver	153,518	454,472	599,571	597,611	673,706
Vienna - Embassy	1,072,624	1,056,497	861,178	1,130,337	1,248,206
Vienna - Permanent Mission to the OSCE	710,037	786,019	741,180	738,560	779,821
Vilnius	360,010	396,585	450,534	473,267	488,241
Warsaw	1,033,634	1,124,887	1,165,101	1,193,805	1,225,275
Washington DC	2,229,037	2,418,573	2,374,923	2,549,591	2,719,446
Wellington	175,965	579,463	603,731	760,016	806,850
Zagreb	353,153	393,636	452,848	447,919	476,177

* - Previously included in Mission Paris