Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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It is relating to the offices and premises that the Department has and has control of. That would include, of course, the costs of the permanent representative office, the costs we have in Brussels, general maintenance, light, heat and fuel, health and safety expenses, relocation and sundry expenses. The 2023 allocation was provided to include infrastructural upgrades of The Billets facilities and canteen area, conservation, restoration and infrastructure works on 14 to 16 Upper Merrion Street, a data connectivity project for the Department's file storage facility, the next phase of the sit-stand desk roll-out and so on. Those would be the main reasons for that.