Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 858: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the annual cost to her Department of ministerial expenses related to overseas travel engagement; and the event and the expense for same for each of the past ten years. [33087/09]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Details of overseas travel costs incurred by my predecessors and me from 1999 to September 2009 are set out in the following table -:

These expenses related to a number of events such as EU Presidency engagements, attendance at British-Irish Council and EU Council of Ministers meetings, bilateral discussions with Ministerial counterparts in other countries, attendance at the OECD and the UN, meetings with Irish emigrant groups in the US and the UK and other similar engagements. The totals shown include the cost of flights paid directly to the relevant travel company and the cost of accommodation paid directly to hotels.