Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 140: To ask the Minister for Finance, further to Parliamentary Questions No. 100 of 31 March and No. 69 of 28 April 2010, if he will now furnish the details required in respect of the amount of expenditure incurred between 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2009 by his Department and offices, agencies and any other bodies falling within his remit, on the lease, rental or purchase of car parking spaces for use by civil and public servants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21794/10]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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I have by informed by the Office of Public Works that they lease car parking spaces for a number of Departments and Offices falling under the Office of Public Works remit. In the period 1st January 2009 to 31st December 2009, based on the information available to the Office of Public Works for the assignment of space in leased buildings to the Departments/Offices involved, the total expenditure incurred by the Office of Public Works for leased car park spaces was €10,660,628, where the specific cost of leased car parking costs are defined in the lease.

The criteria for compiling the answer comprises of the following: Leases that are specifically for the provision of car-parking facilities only – involving some 53 leases which include 3 on a repayment basis. Leases at building level that include car-parking facilities where the annual cost of car-parking is included in the annual rent but is shown as a separate cost in the Property System with the number of spaces involved – involving some 144 leases which include 13 on a repayment basis Leases from above generating expenditure in 2009 The total number of leased car spaces in 2009 was of the order of 5766 and this is broken down in the following table:

OPW did not purchase any new car parking spaces in 2009.