Written answers
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Department of An Taoiseach
Official Travel
8:00 am
Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 98: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide details of any foreign trips made by him in the year 2010 and to date in 2011; the purpose of each trip; the costs associated with each trip broken down by air travel, ground transportation, hotel accommodation and entertaining expenses; if air travel was by way of commercial airline or Government jet; the exact mode of ground transportation used; the name of each hotel and the nature of the entertainment for which the expenses were incurred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2682/11]
Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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The table below details all foreign travel by me from 1st January 2010 to date. Costs in respect of the Government Jet are not included as they are paid by the Department of Defence.
14 January - Meeting with Prime Minister Brown, London | |
Mode of Travel | Government Jet |
Car Hire | € 370.45 |
25 January 2010 - Meeting with Prime Minister Brown, London | |
Mode of Travel | Government Jet |
Car Hire | € 529.22 |
11 February - European Council, Brussels | |
Mode of Travel | Government Jet |
Car Hire | € 337.50 |
12-18 March - St Patrick's Day Programme, USA | |
Mode of Travel | Government Jet |
Air Ticket/ Cancellation Charge | €164.06 |
Car Hire | € 10,616.12 |
Name of Hotel | Hilton Hotel, Chicago |
Four Seasons Hotel, San Francisco | |
St Regis Hotel, Washington | |
Cost of Hotels | € 1,684.87 |
Nature of entertainment expenses | Lunch with Members of the Ireland America Economic Advisory Board / Porterage charges |
Total cost of Entertainment expenses | € 2,704.04 |
25-26 March - European Council Brussels | |
Mode of Travel | Government Jet |
Car Hire | € 1,315.00 |
Name of Hotel | Radisson Blu |
Cost of Hotel | € 500.00 |
7 May - Meeting of Heads of State or Government of the Euro Area, Brussels | |
Mode of Travel | Government Jet |
Car Hire | € 312.50 |
17-18 May - E.U. Latin American & Caribbean Summit and bilateral meetings, Madrid | |
Mode of Travel | Government Jet |
Name of Hotel | Hotel Hesperia |
Cost of Hotel | € 211.86 |
17 June - European Council, Brussels | |
Mode of Travel | Government Jet |
Car Hire | € 682.50 |
Name of Hotel | Radisson Blu |
Cost of Hotels (Cancellation charges) | €217.00 |
23 June - Meeting with Prime Minister Cameron, London | |
Mode of Travel | Government Jet |
25 June - British-Irish Council Summit, Guernsey | |
Mode of Travel | Government Jet |
11-15 July - Official trip to New York/Atlanta | |
Mode of Travel | Government Jet |
Car Hire | € 9,218.90 |
Name of Hotel | Fitzatrick's Hotel, New York |
Carlton Hotel, Atlanta | |
Cost of Hotels | € 838.39 |
Nature of entertainment expenses | Dinner to mark the opening of the new Irish Consul Generalate in Atlanta (14 guests in total ) |
Entertainment expenses | € 935.88 |
16 September - European Council, Brussels | |
Mode of Travel | Government Jet |
Car Hire | € 657.50 |
4-5 October - ASEM VIII Summit and bilateral meetings, Brussels | |
Mode of Travel | Government Jet |
28 -29 October - European Council, Brussels | |
Mode of Travel | Government Jet |
13 December - British-Irish Council Summit, Isle of Man | |
Mode of Travel | Government Jet |
16-17 December - European Council, Brussels | |
Mode of Travel | Government Jet |
Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 99: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide details of any foreign trips made by officials in his Department in the years 2009, 2010 and to date in 2011; the purpose of each trip; the costs associated with each trip broken down by air travel, ground transportation, hotel accommodation and entertaining expenses; if air travel was by way of commercial airline or Government jet; the mode of ground transportation used; the name of each hotel; the nature of the entertainment for which expenses were incurred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2697/11]
Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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There were a total of 157 foreign trips made by officials in my Department. The breakdown requested by the Deputy is not readily available. The table details the total cost of foreign trips made by the Taoiseach, Ministers of State and officials in my Department from 1st January 2009 to date.
Foreign Travel Costs | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |
Air Travel* | â'¬115,354.11 | â'¬56,036.00 | 0 |
Hotel Costs | â'¬87,262.45 | â'¬36,561.75 | â'¬190.49 |
Taxi | â'¬1,489.08 | â'¬950.57 | 0 |
Car Hire | â'¬48,721.14 | â'¬29,178.85 | 0 |
Rail/Train | â'¬366.98 | â'¬2,636.92 | 0 |
Ferry | 0 | â'¬686.00 | 0 |
Other receipted expenditure | â'¬2,341.40 | â'¬6,894.12 | 0 |
*Excluding the cost of the Government Jet which is met by the Department of Defence.
Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 100: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide details of hotel accommodation used by him within the State while on ministerial duties in the years 2009, 2010 and to date in 2011; the name of each hotel in which he stayed; the costs associated with each stay and the purpose of each trip; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2727/11]
Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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The table below details hotel accommodation within the State used by me on official duties during the years 2009 to date.
Date | Name of Hotel | Purpose of Trip | Cost |
18 March 2009 | Park Inn, Shannon Airport | Return flight from Washington to Baldonnel was diverted to Shannon Airport at 12.30am due to weather conditions. | â'¬101.23 |
Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 101: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide details of any foreign trips made by officials in public bodies under the remit of his Department in the years 2009, 2010 and to date in 2011, the purpose of each trip; the costs associated with each trip broken down by air travel, ground transportation, hotel accommodation and entertaining expenses; if air travel was by way of commercial airline or Government jet; the mode of ground transportation used; the name of each hotel; the nature of entertainment for which expenses were incurred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2742/11]
Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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The table below details foreign trips made by official in programmes and bodies under the aegis of my Department from 1st January 2009 to date.
Law Reform Commission
Date | Purpose of Journey | Flight | Hotel Cost | Hotel Name | Public Transport/ Taxis |
2009 | |||||
Jan | 2 Officials attended End of Life Decision Making: Dilemmas and Directions, Legal Research in Birmingham | €135.92 | Nil | Nil | €123.21 |
May | 1 Official attended Trier-Cross Border mediation conference in Luxembourg for Legal Research | €254.10 | €396.00 | Park Plaza Trier | Nil |
2010 | |||||
April | 1 Official attended The Fourth Conference of the Commission on European Family Law: the Future of Family Property in Europe, in Cambridge | €160.96 | €114.50 | €11.80 | |
June | 2 Officials attended "5 Jurisdictions Meeting" in London for meeting of 5 Law Reform Commissions | €862.08 | £546.39 | Bloomsbury Hotel | Nil |
July | 1 Official attended "Meeting of the European Forum of Official Gazettes" in Rome | €166.00 | €259 | Nazionale Hotel | Nil |
Irish Newfoundland Partnership
Year | Purpose | Air travel costs | Hotel | Taxis | Entertainment Expenses |
March 2009 | 1 officialINP meetings in St. John's, Newfoundland and planning meetings regarding the official opening of Irish exhibition in The Rooms | €3,331.59 | Sheraton Hotel€913.06 | €104.84 | €357.54 |
May 2009 | 1 officialINP meetings in St. John's, Newfoundland | €1,014.06 | €0 | €45.89 | €0 |
September 2009 | 3 officialsINP meetings in St. John's and official opening of Irish exhibition in The Rooms | €2,597.23 | Sheraton Hotel€1,464.04 | €140.96 (2 officials) | €0 |
National Forum on Europe
Year | Purpose | Air travel costs |
May 2009 | Meeting in Brussels | €158.84 |
NESDO
The National Economic and Social Development Office (NESDO) comes under the aegis of my Department. The information sought is contained in the following tabular statement. Air travel in all cases was by way of commercial airlines. The total cost of foreign trips in 2009 was €8,644.57 and in 2010 was €4,408.06. There have been no foreign trips made by officials of NESDO so far in 2011.
It was not possible in the time available to capture all the detail requested by the deputy, as some of it applies to two former constituent bodies of NESDO, the National Economic and Social Forum (NESF) and the National Centre for Partnership and Performance (NCPP) which were discontinued on 1 April 2010. I will communicate with the deputy when the complete information is available.
Date | Purpose of Journey | Flights | Hotel Cost | Hotel Name | Taxis | Other |
Apr-09 | Berlin Work in Net Conference | € 223.05 | € 14.50 | |||
Apr-09 | East Midlands Hospital of the Future Meeting with Peter Totterdell | € 83.69 | €265.09 | Hotel Izaak | ||
May-09 | Boston, Harvard, Women's Leadership Board | € 2,216.40 | € 880.00 | Charles Hotel Boston | ||
2009 | Speaker Helsinki University of Technology | € 443.76 | € 96.50 | |||
May-09 | London (Details on purpose of journey to follow) | € 118.81 | € 37.24 | |||
Jun-09 | Brussels/Maastricht, Symposium on Health Care Reform | € 240.74 | Hotel Costs paid by third party and claimed from NCPP | Hotel Mabi | ||
Jun-09 | Amsterdam Institute for Advanced labour Studies | Details to follow | Details to follow | Details to follow | € 62.70 | €81.4 |
Jun-09 | Sofia, ESC AGM of the Secretary Generals | € 527.92 | € 178.00 | Grand Hotel, Sofia | € 83.50 | €11.95 |
Aug-09 | Copenhagen to Oslo to Dublin (Details of purpose of journey to follow) | € 479.87 | € 169.37 | Hotel Bristol, Oslo | € 56.90 | €13.68 |
Aug-09 | Boston, Harvard, Womens Leadership Board | € 1,443.19 | Details to follow | Charles Hotel Boston | € 58.90 | |
Aug-09 | Amsterdam International Summer School | € 157.02 | Hotel paid for by Host organisation | |||
Sep-09 | Conference Liege re Europe Report | € 166.48 | € 178.00 | Ramada Plaza, Liege | € 92.70 | |
Oct-09 | Budapest /Sofia Conference - Details to follow | € 200.51 | Details to follow | Details to follow | € 62.70 | |
Mar-10 | London, International Strategy Workshop at the Institute for Govt | € 193.55 | € 441.11 | Details to follow | € 87.88 | €7.49 |
Apr-10 | Nottingham, Project Workshop for Hospital of the Future Project | €83.69 | € 265.09 | Izaak Walton Hotel, | ||
May-10 | Speaking at conference in Cornell University | € 526.25 | € 1,277.94 | Fitzparticks, Manhattan | ||
May-10 | European Social Council Meeting Madrid | € 158.09 | € 342.40 | Hotel NH Nacional | €51.19 | |
Sep-10 | Brussels European Social Council | € 654.98 | € 257.00 | Details to follow | € 61.40 |
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