Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 184: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the annual cost to her Department of Ministerial expenses related to overseas travel engagements; and the event and the expense for same for each of the past ten years. [33081/09]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The information available to me to respond to the Deputy's question is limited by the level at which details are recorded on my Department's financial systems. There have also been changes to my Department's systems over the last ten years which further limits the level of detail available.

It is not feasible, therefore, to provide details of the cost of each individual Ministerial overseas travel engagement for the last ten years. However, the table below provides, as far as the information is available, the total identifiable cost related to foreign travel undertaken by all Ministers and Ministers of State at my Department for each year since 2002. The figures include costs related to accompanying staff of the relevant Minister or Minister of State's office.

Where Ministerial foreign travel was organised by an agency of the Department, certain costs related to the Minister's delegation were borne directly by the relevant agency.