Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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230. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence 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. [60933/21]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The table below sets out the amounts spent by the Department of Defence over the past five years on electricity costs in relation to its buildings at Newbridge, Roscrea, Renmore and Dublin. The figures provided reflect the apportionment of costs arising from shared usage of buildings in Renmore and Dublin with other Departments.

However, the Department is not in a position to provide the information requested in relation to an additional schedule that sets out all energy costs associated with our ITC hardware, that is, servers and so on in tabular form.

Each of the Department’s existing buildings has a single MPRN ESB network meter, which accounts for all energy consumption used throughout each building. There is no separate itemisation of IT systems available within the costs incurred for electricity. Therefore, costs includes all forms of electric usage (i.e. printers, IT systems, lighting, etc.).