Máire Hoctor (Tipperary North, Fianna Fail)
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Question 170: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of installing and administering the new system for electronically recording the attendance of Members and Senators in Leinster House. [11490/10]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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As the Deputy is aware, the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Act, 2003, set up the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission to provide for the running of the Houses of the Oireachtas and to manage its expenditure within the limits set down in the legislation and its subsequent amendments. Accordingly, I have no direct role in the day to day running of the Houses. However, in order to provide an answer to the Deputy's question, the Houses of the Oireachtas Service has informed me that a system of recording attendance of staff was installed in the Houses of the Oireachtas in 2009. The additional marginal cost of extending the staff system to also recording the attendance of Members was €26,932 of which €18,462 has been invoiced and paid to date. The cost of administering the system is being met from within the existing resources of the Service.