Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 1736: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation in respect of the current year in terms of full-time equivalents the number of persons employed in his, or if applicable his predecessors', constituency office; the annual amount paid in respect of salaries and expenses to each individual; the location or locations of such constituency office; if those offices are on departmental property, to state the office space dedicated to such an office and the estimated value of same; the estimated cost of the provision of utilities, services and other miscellaneous costs to the office; if he will provide the same information for 2008, 2009 and from 14 June to the end of 2007; if he will provide the same information for Ministers of State attached to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32273/10]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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Table 1 below outlines the number of persons (full time equivalents), broken down by grade, employed in my constituency office and in those of my predecessors, including each Minister of State from 14th June 2007 to date in 2010. It also includes the salary and overtime costs for each individual. These figures do not include Special Advisers as they are not assigned to constituency offices.

Table 2 identifies the travel expenses paid to persons within each constituency office from 2007 to date in 2010. In relation to constituency offices on Departmental property the following is the position. Since June 2007, a constituency office in the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment/Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation in Kildare Street has been used by myself and my predecessors (Tánaiste Mary Coughlan T.D. and Minister Micheál Martin T.D.). The dimensions of that office amount to 26 square meters approximately. Since June 2007, the only Minister of State who has been provided with a constituency office on Department property is the current Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Conor Lenihan T.D. The dimensions of his constituency office amount to 31 square metres approximately. It is not possible to provide an estimate of the value associated with those constituency offices or to provide an accurate estimate of the costs of providing utilities, services and other miscellaneous costs for those offices because those constituency offices represent an insignificant amount of space within the Department's building in Kildare Street.