Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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417. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline in tabular form, the amount of travel and subsistence, both foreign and domestic, claimed individually by each Minister and Minister of State and Secretary General in her Department, for each year in the period 2005 to March 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23822/13]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Details of the amount of travel and subsistence, both foreign and domestic, claimed by me and each Minister and Secretary General for the period from 1/1/2005 to 31/3/2011 are set out in the following tables:-

Minister Joan Burton (9/3/2011 to 31/3/2011)

Minister Éamon Ó Cuív (23/3/2010 to 8/3/2011)

Minister Mary Hanafin (7/5/2008 to 22/3/2010)

Minister Martin Cullen (14/6/2007 to 6/5/2008)

Minister Seamus Brennan (1/1/2005 to 13/6/2007)

Secretary General – Niamh O’Donoghue (23/7/2010 to 31/3/2011)

Secretary General – Bernadette Lacey (21/7/2007 to 22/7/2010)

Secretary General – John Hynes (1/1/2005 to 20/7/2007)

Travel expenses are claimed in the course of carrying out official duties and also for various work related requirements such as attending meetings and representing the Department.