Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 309: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number and cost of mobile telephones or such communications equipment issued to programme managers, advisers, press officers and departmental personnel during each of the past three years; and the annual billing cost of same. [19508/08]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The total number of mobile phones and communications equipment such as Blackberrys in use in the Department, including the National Archives, for each of the past three years is

The total expenditure on the billing of such equipment is set out below

A small number of the phones are kept for occasional use by staff travelling abroad on official business and the Blackberrys are also used to enable staff to keep in touch with emails whether travelling abroad or to and from the decentralised offices in Fossa, Killarney.