Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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196. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form the expenses incurred by him from 2011 to date in 2015, including the date, expense type, description and amount; if each expense was vouched; his plans to introduce changes to the expenses system to ensure all expenses are fully vouched for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26997/15]

Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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The table below set out the mileage and subsistence expense paid to me as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and to my predecessor Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Eamon Gilmore T.D. in the period March 2011 to June 2015.

# - Additional motor insurance premium for use of personal vehicle for official business. This expenditure was vouched.

Tánaiste Gilmore was provided with a State car and Garda drivers. There is no official car provided to Minister Flanagan and the figures provided reflect the motor travel expenses claimed in respect of official travel undertaken, and processed subject to guidelines as set out by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

Subsistence payments in respect of official travel are paid in accordance with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform set subsistence rates.

The Department pays motor travel expenses and subsistence rates in accordance with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform guidelines. Other expenses claimed (e.g. taxi) outside these two categories must be fully vouched.