Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 216: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cost of official domestic travel including all transport costs, accommodation, meals and other incidentals incurred by herself and the Ministers of State at her Department in 2007, 2008 and to date in 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36569/09]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The official domestic travel requirements of Ministers are met by using State cars with official Garda drivers, the costs of which are met from the Garda Síochána Vote. No other additional costs were incurred by me or by my predecessor in 2008 or in 2009 to date. The additional costs incurred in 2007 by the late Minister Brennan are set out in the following table -:

Since my appointment as Minister I have incurred no Travel and Subsistence costs for Domestic Travel.