Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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1128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the cost incurred by his Department in 2018 for the use of taxi services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54213/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Expenditure on taxis for my Department for the year 2018 came to €10,573.36.

In the context of official travel, it is the policy of my Department that public transport should be used wherever possible, where it is deemed necessary to travel for business purposes. Staff are permitted to hire taxis or use their cars for official purposes only where no suitable public transport is available, where public transport is available only at equal or greater expense or where the use of public transport would result in the loss of official time which it is necessary to avoid.