Joe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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278. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff by location and function in each office of his Department nationally by location; if the property is State owned or leased; and the detail of these leases in the case of those properties on a lease in terms of cost, term and next break date. [38858/21]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth's offices are located as follows:

- 2nd and 3rd floors, Block 1, Miesian Plaza, 50 - 58 Baggot Street Lower, Dublin 2; and

- 2nd and 3rd floors, Montague Court, 7 - 11 Montague Street, Dublin 2.

The number of staff by location and function in each office of my Department is set our below.

Note that the staffing numbers provided refer solely to direct employees (headcount) of the Department as of 30 June 2021.

The leasing arrangements in place for the Departmental buildings are as follows:

Block 1, Miesian Plaza, 50 - 58 Baggot Street Lower, Dublin 2: The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) occupy the second and third floors at this leased property. The leaseholder is the Office of Public Works. DCEDIY does not pay rent on this property and does not have the current information on the lease in terms of cost, term and next break date.

Montague Court, 7 - 11 Montague Street, Dublin 2: DCEDIY currently holds the leases on the second and third floors at this property. These leases transferred to my Ministerial role from the Minister for Justice under a transfer of functions in October 2020. The current rent on these leases is €795,655 net per annum, excluding service charges and other costs. The rent has been agreed for the remainder of the terms of these leases, which expire on 31 May, 2025.