Written answers
Friday, 16 December 2016
Department of Children and Youth Affairs
Ministerial Travel
Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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548. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total use her Department has made of the Government jet since coming into office; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40676/16]
Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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549. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total use her Department has made of the Government jet per annum from March 2011 to February 2016, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40693/16]
Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 548 and 549 together.
The Government jet has been used three times by my Department since 2011 as set out in the following table. The use of the Government jet in December 2016 relates to me accompanying the Taoiseach on his return flight from a British Irish Council meeting in Cardiff.
Year | Number of occasions Government Jet was used by Minister and officials of Department of Children and Youth Affairs |
---|---|
2011(from 1 March) | None |
2012 | None |
2013 | Once |
2014 | None |
2015 | Once |
2016 (to 1 February) | None |
2016 (from 6 May to 14 December) | Once |
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