Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 187: To ask the Minister for Finance the costs involved in off-site rental storage of departmental documents in designated document storage centres (details supplied). [42419/08]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The cost of storage in designated document storage centres may vary on a monthly basis depending on the number of boxes in storage. In the case of my own Department there are some 11,516 held in rented storage for the month of November 2008. The storage cost per box stored varies depending on the cubic capacity of the box in question. The cost per cubic meter for storage in the month of November amounted to €.0.3570 per cubic meter of space occupied. The cubic quantity of space occupied amounted to 14,498.23 which resulted in a cost of storage for November 2008 of € 5,175.87 exclusive of 21% VAT. The Office of Public Works manage arrangements for the off site storage of documents for a number of Government departments. I have been informed that they will respond directly to Deputy McGrath on this matter.