Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail)
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401. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht 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. [25809/14]

Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North-West Limerick, Fine Gael)
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The total amount spent per annum in 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014 on staff subsistence payments and on taxi payments where staff are engaged in official business is laid out in the table below:

All travel and subsistence payments were made in accordance with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform guidance on such matters and I am advised that no benefit in kind issues arise. My Department has not been audited for tax compliance on these payments and other benefits in kind. I understand, however, that such matters are kept under active review, in consultation with the Revenue Commissioners, as appropriate.