Departmental Expenditure

Wednesday, 7 February 2024

Questions (403)

Peadar Tóibín

Question:

403. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount spent by his Department on the procurement of office space and furniture and office IT equipment in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024. [5396/24]

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Written answers

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine

It is not possible to provide the information requested by the Deputy in the required time. The information is currently being compiled and I will forward it to the Deputy as soon as it is available.

The following deferred reply was received under Standing Order 51

The Minister’s initial reply stated that it was not possible to provide the information requested by the Deputy in the required time, and that he would arrange for a reply to be forwarded directly to you as soon as it was available. I now wish to advise you that the amount spent by my Department on the procurement of office space and furniture and office IT equipment in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024, are set out in tabular form below:

Year	Office Space	Furniture	IT Equipment
2014	100,000	753,502	3,758,035
2015	106,000	1,168,151	3,554,026
2016	115,149	1,147,732	1,114,225
2017	115,247	1,293,572	3,155,392
2018	115,518	1,180,833	3,406,905
2019	115,788	1,219,977	3,451,849
2020	114,959	635,129	3,323,458
2021	189,231	751,639	3,719,014
2022	752,985	423,973	5,840,648
2023	588,542	694,496	4,772,321
2024 to date	89,641	24,401	11,808