Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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148. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount spent by his Department on renting car park spaces in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23449/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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There has been no expenditure by my Department, including Met Éireann, on renting car park spaces in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017.

My Department encourages the use of public transport by its staff through the operation of a Travel Pass Scheme under which they purchase an annual bus or rail pass in a tax efficient manner approved by the Revenue Commissioners.  My Department also encourages the healthier, sustainable option of cycling through the operation  of the Cycle to Work Scheme which was introduced under the Finance (No. 2) Act 2008.