Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 279: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff sent from his Department and its agencies to a conference (details supplied); the cost of sending staff to the conference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29994/08]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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Four officials from the Department of Finance attended the 4th Annual Public Private Partnership Forum, held on Thursday the 19th June 2008. As they were all due to speak at the forum no charge was incurred by the Department in respect of their attendance. One officer of the Revenue Commissioners attended the forum at a cost of €592.90.

In addition, two members of staff of the National Development Finance Agency attended the forum. One of these was a speaker at the conference and consequently did not pay an attendance fee. In respect of the second member of staff who attended the forum, a reduced fee of €470.09 was paid as the NDFA had a speaker at the conference. There were no other costs incurred by the NDFA in relation to this forum.