Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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202. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount expended by his Department in each of the past five years to date in 2021 on electricity costs in tabular form; and if he will provide an additional schedule that sets out all energy costs associated with their ICT hardware, that is, servers and so on in tabular form. [60937/21]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I wish to advise the Deputy that the amount expended on electricity by the Department of Finance, in each of the past five years to end November 2021, is as follows:

This expenditure encompasses all energy costs, including those associated with ICT hardware. There is no facility to separate out and provide an additional schedule for ICT-related energy costs.