Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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1421. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost per year for the past three years for the storage and archiving of his Department's files and records at off-site locations by third party companies and at State-owned storage facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1119/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The cost of renting storage facilities for the storage and archiving of department files and records is generally a matter for the  Office of Public  Works. However, as a result of a local office reorganisation programme  in my Department, which resulted in the  the closure of a number of offices, there was a requirement for  additional offsite  storage.

The amounts outlined below  are the costs incurred by my Department  for record management  from 2014-2016. A  significant proportion of the storage costs relate to the retention of  files and records associated with the closure of a number of local offices and the consequential redeployment of staff. Some of this  work extended into 2016.