Written answers
Wednesday, 16 February 2022
Department of Health
Departmental Data
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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214. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a schedule of foreign travel episodes arranged by his Department for elected representatives, Ministers and their staff and-or special advisers since 1 January 2018 to date in 2022; and if he will provide a schedule of locations of the travel arranged or advised on, to include the final destination of travel episode, by year, and the full cost of same. [8507/22]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The following table provides a list of foreign travel episodes arranged by the Department for elected representatives between the dates outlined. This schedule includes the number of destination and the number of staff who travelled with the Minister. Special Advisors are included in the number of Departmental staff members who travelled.
There may be further expenses claimed in relation to prior travel episodes in the future but we have included the costs as paid by the Department to date.
Year | Name | Destination | Cost | Travelling Party |
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2018 | Simon Harris | Amsterdam | 556.17 | Minister only |
2018 | Simon Harris | Luxembourg | 1,537.28 | Minister plus 1 Departmental staff member |
2018 | Simon Harris/Catherine Byrne | Vienna | 1,361.97 | Minister plus Minister of State plus 2 Departmental staff members |
2018 | Jim Daly | Edinburgh | 563.38 | Minister of State plus 1 Departmental staff member |
2018 | Catherine Byrne | Helsinki | 849.63 | Minister of State plus 1 Departmental staff member |
2018 | Finian McGrath | Prague | 1,105.96 | Minister of State |
2018 | Catherine Byrne | Sofia | 1,954.71 | Minister of State plus 1 Departmental staff member |
2018 | Catherine Byrne | Copenhagen | 834.94 | Minister of State |
2018 | Catherine Byrne | Stavenger | 1,103.52 | Minister of State plus 1 Departmental staff member |
2018 | Jim Daly | Washington | 11,851.89 | Minister of State plus 3 Departmental staff members |
2018 | Finian McGrath | New York | 3,775.74 | Minister of State plus 1 Departmental staff member |
2018 | Finian McGrath | New York | 2,634.15 | Minister of State plus 1 Departmental staff member |
2018 | Jim Daly | New York | 14,081.54 | Minister of State plus 1 Departmental staff member |
Total | 42,210.88 | |||
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2019 | Jim Daly | Amsterdam | 3,066.31 | Minister and 3 Departmental staff members |
2019 | Jim Daly | Brisbane/Dubai | 27,397.64 | Minister and 2 Departmental staff members |
2019 | Simon Harris | Brussels | 891.11 | Minister |
2019 | Simon Harris | Bucharest | 517.31 | Minister and 1 Departmental staff member |
2019 | Jim Daly | Dubai | 1,182.39 | Minister of State and 1 Departmental staff member |
2019 | Jim Daly | Geneva | 1,152.27 | Minister of State and 1 Departmental staff member |
2019 | Jim Daly | Helsinki | 4,919.06 | Minister of State and 1 Departmental staff member |
2019 | Jim Daly | India | 9,325.99 | Minister of State and 1 Departmental staff member |
2019 | Catherine Byrne | Lisbon | 6,624.95 | Minister of State and 2 Departmental staff members |
2019 | Simon Harris | Luxembourg | 2,822.85 | Minister of State and 2 Departmental staff members |
2019 | Finian McGrath | Malta | 1,573.93 | Minister of State and 1 Departmental staff member |
2019 | Finian McGrath | Mexico & Cuba | 5,534.28 | Minister of State and 1 Departmental staff member |
2019 | Jim Daly | Northampton | 715.24 | Minister of State and 2 Departmental staff members |
2019 | Simon Harris | San Fran LA | 12,619.59 | Minister of State and 1 Departmental staff member |
2019 | Catherine Byrne | Slovakia, Austria & Hungary | 4,879.72 | Minister of State and 2 Departmental staff members |
2019 | Jim Daly | Stockholm | 1,789.96 | Minister of State |
2019 | Simon Harris | New York | 4,562.17 | Minister of State and 1 Departmental staff member |
2019 | Finian McGrath | New York | 4,298.22 | Minister of State and 2 Departmental staff members |
Total | 93,872.99 | |||
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2020 | Simon Harris | Brussels | 608.60 | Minister |
2020 | Jim Daly | Oxford | 1,346.76 | Minister of State and 2 Departmental staff members |
Total | 1,955.36 | |||
2021 | Stephen Donnelly | Luxembourg | 684.53 | Minister plus 1 Departmental staff member |
2021 | Frank Feighan | Brussels | 884.79 | Minister of State plus 1 Departmental staff member |
2021 | Anne Rabbitte | Lisbon | 2,247.75 | Minister of State |
2021 | Frank Feighan | London | 736.88 | Minister of State plus 2 Departmental staff members |
Total | 4,553.95 | |||
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2022 | Stephen Donnelly | Dubai | 2,995.24 | Minister plus 3 Departmental staff members |
Total | 2,995.24 |
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