Jack Chambers
Ceist:123. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his Department's spend on travel and subsistence expenses in 2017 and to date in 2018. [34215/18]
Amharc ar fhreagraTuesday, 24 July 2018
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Freagraí scríofa
The work of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade obviously necessitates extensive travel. My Department’s budget comes from two separate votes, Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Vote 27 - International Co-operation. The table below sets out the travel and subsistence expenses paid to officers across both Votes in the year ending 31 December 2017 and in the period from 01 January 2018 to 30 June 2018. This does not include spending on travel by the Department’s overseas Mission network.
|
Year |
Total € |
|
2017 |
1,850,746 |
|
2018 (to 30 June 2018) |
924,902 |
My Department complies with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform guidelines on official travel. The central aim of the Departmental travel policy is to minimise official travel costs and to achieve value for money for expenditure necessarily incurred, consistent with the effective discharge of official duties.