David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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405. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the estimated full-year saving for 2017 by reducing spending on travel by 10% in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14126/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Based on my Department’s current 2016 allocation for Travel and Subsistence (T&S), a ten per cent spending reduction is estimated to amount to €127,500. This estimate will have to be revised once Orders for the transfer of functions from my Department are complete, as related T&S budgets will transfer with staff leaving my Department. It is my Department’s policy that only essential business travel is undertaken and that the number of staff absent on official business is kept to an absolute minimum.