Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the administrative costs of the National Parks and Wildlife Service head office in 2020. [32892/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The majority of the Heritage function, which encompasses both our built and natural heritage, and includes the National Parks and Wildlife Service, transferred to my Department last September from the former Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. A further transfer of a small number of remaining functions, which required supporting primary legislation that was recently enacted, is expected shortly.

The full year administrative costs of the National Parks and Wildlife Service Head Office in 2020 was €6.242m, broken down as €6.090m pay and €152k non-pay, the majority of which is made up of travel and training costs. These administrative costs do not include operational support costs such as ICT, facilities management or other business support services, which are dealt with as part of wider departmental budgets and are not possible to disaggregate accurately for a smaller subset of staff.