Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount expended by her Department in each of the past five years to date in 2021 on electricity costs in tabular form; and if she 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. [60934/21]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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My Department occupies three main campuses in Marlborough Street, Tullamore and Athlone. In addition, the Department also maintains the ESBS offices in Blanchardstown and 41 local offices throughout the country.

The table below displays the total the Department of Education has expended on electricity in each of the years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021.

Please note that it is not possible to separate the amount the Department expends on energy costs associated with ICT hardware alone. Therefore, the figures below include all electrical costs.