While Meath Partnership operates a number of programmes/initiatives on behalf of the State, it also conducts its own business as a private limited company. Accordingly, Meath Partnership is obliged to provide information relating to travel undertaken in respect of programmes under my Department’s remit only. In that regard, I am advised that travel and subsistence to the value of €81,569 was claimed by Meath Partnership in respect of the LEADER elements of the Rural Development Programme between 2009 and 2015. I understand that this figure includes all travel expenditure in respect of LEADER, both domestic and foreign, as there was no requirement for separate reporting.