Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 February 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach
9:00 am
Mr. Martin Fraser:
It was but I am happy to answer on it again. It is not an enormous figure. It is a function of the extent and duration of the President's official visits. In the year in question there were quite a lot of State visits. There was one to Cuba and quite a long one to Australia and New Zealand. The further one goes and the longer one is away, the more expensive it is, including for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, which has fewer people on the ground in some places. That figure fluctuates depending on the extent of diplomatic engagement.
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