Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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664. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the use her Department has made of the Government jet since coming into office, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54190/17]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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Since coming into office in May 2016, my Department's only use of the Government jet was when I travelled with the Taoiseach to the British Irish Council meeting in Cardiff on 25th November 2016.

Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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665. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the use her Department has made of the Government jet in each of the years March 2011 to February 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54206/17]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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From the establishment of my Department in June 2011 to February 2016, my Department has used the Government jet twice. The jet was used on one occasion by Minister Fitzgerald in 2013 and once by Minister Reilly in 2015.