Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail)
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294. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the total amount spent per annum in 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014 on staff subsistence payments, staff taxi payments; if his Department has been audited for tax compliance on these payments and other benefits in kind; if these processes have been revised in view of concerns by the Revenue Commissioners over practices in other State bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25820/14]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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In response to the Deputy's question please see  in the table hereunder details of the total annual spend on  staff subsistence payments and staff taxi payments for the years 2011,2012,2013 and to date in 2014.

In addition, the Department has a contracted taxi service and the payments to that company in respect of usage of the service over the years in question are set out in the table below. An element of the cost relates to administration charges for the taxi company.

A Revenue audit of my Department is currently in progress. As is usual, that audit is looking at all of the relevant payments that the Department makes. My Department and the Department of Finance which provides payment services on an agency basis for my Department is concerned at all times to abide by taxation legislation and Revenue guidelines.