Written answers
Tuesday, 16 June 2015
Department of Children and Youth Affairs
Departmental Staff Allowances
Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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523. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide, in tabular form, the total amount spent in each of the years 2011 to 2014 and in 2015 to date on staff subsistence payments and 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 the Revenue Commissioners' concerns over practices in other State bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23676/15]
James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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Details of the expenditure incurred by my Department on overseas and home travel and subsistence, including the costs associated with taxi fares, since 2011 are set out in the following table.
Year | Cost | Portion of cost spent on taxi usage |
---|---|---|
2011 | €66,087 | €374 |
2012 | €102,002 | €5,487 |
2013 | €136,231 | €9,282 |
2014 | €78,104 | €4,825 |
2015 to date | €47,462 | €4,373 |
Expenditure in this regard is examined by the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General as part of its annual audit of Departmental expenditure and was also made available for examination by the Office of the Revenue Commissioners as part of its audit of the Department earlier this year.
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