Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 513: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the details of all foreign travel undertaken by staff in his Department during each of the last three years. [36396/12]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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The costs of foreign travel undertaken by the staff of my Department for the years 2009, 2010 and 2011 were €405,775.06, €374,701.79 and € 415,026.99 respectively, including costs for the staff in Met Éireann but excluding costs for the heritage functions which transferred to the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in 2011.

Further details of those costs are not readily available and, given the extent of international business conducted by my Department, would require a disproportionate amount of staff time and resources to compile.