Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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Question 170: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of buildings within his Department that have a canteen or hot food service for staff; the location of each building; the country of origin for beef, pork, chicken and lamb sourced for each building; if he will provide the information in tabular readable form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26611/07]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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There are serviced canteen facilities in three of the buildings occupied by my Department. These buildings are Government Buildings, Dublin, 2, Lansdowne House, Dublin, 4 and the Department's decentralised office in the Central Business Park Tullamore County Offaly. All three facilities are operated by commercial caterers. It is a matter for the companies providing the service to make their own commercial decisions as to where to source their supplies. However, I am informed by the caterers that the majority of meat used by them is sourced in Ireland.