Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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358. To ask the Minister for Defence the agencies or sections from his Department that were decentralised during the period from 1997 until 2011; the travel costs and expenses incurred by decentralised personnel travelling to their base Department in that period. [1026/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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My Department has decentralised offices in Newbridge, Galway and Roscrea. My Department’s headquarters decentralised to Newbridge in 2010, preceded by the decentralisation of the Department’s Civil Defence Branch to Roscrea in 2006 and the decentralisation of the Department’s Finance Branch to Galway in 1989. Information on travel to and from decentralised offices is not collated in such a way as to allow for the travel costs and expenses requested by the Deputy to be extracted from financial records.

Every effort is made to minimise travel and subsistence expenditure by managing the location and frequency of meetings and by the use of video conference technology. I am satisfied that all travel & subsistence expenses are paid in line with Department of Public Expenditure & Reform guidelines.