Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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Question 427: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the estimated spend on mileage allowances for her Department in 2007; the number of claimants in respect of categories (details supplied) under which mileage is paid; the total number of claimants; and the total spend on same. [42629/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Details of mileage are not recorded separately but are included in the overall Travel and Subsistence subhead. There is a significant level of travel expenditure in the Department's budget, arising from the dispersed nature of our services, and inter alia, the fact that a considerable level of investigative work must be carried out in the course of delivering the Department's services. The total amount of home travel paid out by the Department in 2007 was €2,314,400. This amount includes car mileage, bus/train fares and other miscellaneous travel costs.