Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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835. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form the total amount spent in each year from 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 practises in other State bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23677/15]

Alex White (Dublin South, Labour)
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The total amount paid out in respect of staff subsistence and staff taxi payments for each of the years from 2011 to date is set out in the table below. My Department has not been subject to a tax compliance audit for these payments. Payments made to staff in respect of travel and subsistence are in accordance with the relevant Department of Public Expenditure and Reform rules and guidelines.