Written answers
Tuesday, 17 June 2014
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Consular Services Expenditure
Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent)
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133. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the costs and expenses for the Irish Embassy to Italy for the last full year of its operation before it moved to Villa Spada in 2012, to include rent, salaries, travel, residence, maintenance, and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26003/14]
Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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The Embassy to Italy incurred totally expenditure of €1,568,066 in the last full year (2011) prior to transfer to Villa Spada. Following the closure of the Embassy to the Holy See in November 2011, the Embassy to Italy and the residence of the Ambassador to Italy were relocated to the State owned Villa Spada, formerly occupied by the Embassy to the Holy See.
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