Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 636: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide the total amount each Minister, Minister of State and senior civil servant has spent on entertainment expenses, since being appointed in the case of the Ministers and Ministers of State and in the calendar year of 2011 with regard to senior civil servants. [10850/12]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The Deputy might wish to note that the entertainment expenses claimed by me since my appointment as Minister amount to €142.25. This relates to catering services provided by the Oireachtas for working lunches that I had on 30th June and 7th July, 2011 with the Secretary General of my Department and representatives of the HSE. In addition, officials of my Department incurred expenditure of €104.95 in October 2011 on a lunch hosted for the Management Committee of the Causeway Programme which included representatives from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK and the Department of Education, Northern Ireland.

There are no Ministers of State assigned to my Department.