Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 143: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department has a contract with a taxi firm; if so, the amount of money spend by officials in 2007 and 2008; the changes he will bring about; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4035/09]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I wish to inform the Deputy that my Department does not have a formal contract in place for the provision of taxi services but the practice in recent years has been to use the services of a particular company. Following a review of expenditure in this area in 2008, the Department is currently in the process of issuing a public tender for the provision of a taxi service. Moreover, in the light of budgetary constraints the circumstances in which taxi services can be availed of has been significantly curtailed.

The recording of expenditure on taxi services does not allow for the precise identification of the spend under this heading. However, this spend is in the order of €85,000 for both years in question.

Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 144: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if external storage is utilised by his Department; if so, if he will state what is being stored; the length of time it has been stored; the cost of such storage; the details of the contract; his plans in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4049/09]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I can inform the Deputy that my Department has the use of storage facilities in Santry and Clondalkin which are leased by the Office of Public Works. They are used, primarily, for the storage of my Department's archive material.

My Department also has file storage facilities in Bow Lane, Kilmainham which are used by the Irish Nationalisation and Immigration Service (INIS). As the Deputy will appreciate, due to the nature of INIS's operations, in particular, case processing, it is necessary to retain a substantial amount of paper based records. The cost for this facility in 2008 was €24,000.