Departmental Expenditure

Wednesday, 29 September 2010

Ceisteanna (1335)

Leo Varadkar

Ceist:

1425 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount spent by the whole Department, by him, and by each junior Minister, on travel, fuel, accommodation, subsistence, advertising and credit cards for the years 2007 to date in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32164/10]

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Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government (Deputy John Gormley)

The information requested is set out in the following tables. No costs were incurred by my Department in respect of Minister of State, Deputy Áine Brady, or Minister of State, Deputy Ciarán Cuffe. Expenditure on advertising for 2008 and 2009 includes €4.9 million relating to the National Climate Change Campaign.

Whole Department (including Ministerial costs as set out in the tables following):

Year	2007	2008	2009	2010 (to date)
	€	€	€	€
Travel	1,942,955.19	2,050,549.68	1,207,523.18	778,572.18
Accommodation	156,423.22	206,723.30	169,408.93	106,738.63
Subsistence	1,503,036.76	1,517,398.83	1,024,617.31	646,886.77
Vehicle Fuel	233,891.35	298,945.57	225,729.23	198,449.27
Advertising	1,596,416.53	5,236,673.95	2,786,471.59	316,028.31
Credit Cards	37,461.54	61,731.89	27,003.89	17,485.86

Minister John Gormley TD (expenditure incurred June 2007 to date)

Year	2007	2008	2009	2010 (to date)
	€	€	€	€
Travel	22,368.38	25,407.78	7,580.38	3,794.75
Accommodation	5,946.35	12,015.99	4,603.02	984.93
Subsistence	2,429.54	1,697.09	3,965.94	2,704.96
Vehicle Fuel	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
Advertising	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
Credit Cards	5,789.05	14,421.42	4,940.79	1,379.58

Minister of State Michael Finneran TD (expenditure incurred April 2009 to date)

Year	2008	2009	2010 (to date)
	€	€	€
Travel	29,318.92	35,022.01	29,326.67
Accommodation	364.50	Nil	420.86
Subsistence	Nil	1,864.90	1,734.68
Vehicle Fuel	Nil	Nil	Nil
Advertising	Nil	Nil	Nil
Credit Cards	2,779.41	7,872.80	5,605.50

Minister of State Michael Kitt TD (expenditure incurred May 2008 – April 2009)

Year	2008	2009
	€	€
Travel	21,306.28	16,732.34
Accommodation	Nil	819.82
Subsistence	Nil	266.04
Vehicle Fuel	Nil	Nil
Advertising	Nil	Nil
Credit Cards	1,062.44	1,039.42

Minister of State Tony Killeen TD (expenditure incurred June 2007 – May 2008)

Year	2007	2008
	€	€
Travel	18,778.19	20,105.90
Accommodation	399.80	890.30
Subsistence	180.00	2,860.02
Vehicle Fuel	Nil	Nil
Advertising	Nil	Nil
Credit Cards	871.78	2,298.79

Minister of State Batt O'Keeffe TD (expenditure incurred January 2007 to May 2008)

Year	2007	2008
	€	€
Travel	37,897.98	56,097.15
Accommodation	2,896.42	2,334.45
Subsistence	6,343.53	2,491.26
Vehicle Fuel	Nil	Nil
Advertising	Nil	Nil
Credit Cards	1,740.29	Nil

Minister Dick Roche TD (expenditure incurred January 2007 to June 2007)

Year	2007
	€
Travel	14,588.57
Accommodation	1,728.21
Subsistence	1,086.84
Vehicle Fuel	Nil
Advertising	Nil
Credit Cards	1,087.07

Minister of State Noel Ahern (expenditure incurred January 2007 to June 2007)

Year	2007
	€
Travel	22,328.71
Accommodation	795.41
Subsistence	1,076.58
Vehicle Fuel	29.43
Advertising	Nil
Credit Cards	Nil