Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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770. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the expenditure his Department and agencies under his Department's remit have incurred on car, van, commercial vehicle rental or lease in each of the years 2020 to date in 2023; and if he will outline in tabular form the make and model of each vehicle, the cost of rental per quarter and the name of the entity from which each vehicle is rented or leased. [15045/23]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the attached table.

In addition, staff from my Department who are working abroad, occasionally need to rent a vehicle locally for short term use. Typically, such instances relate to official visits where it is more efficient and cost effective to rent a vehicle for the duration of the visitors’ work. There are no quarterly or annual costs incurred per se as none of the arrangements are long term. Similarly, the arrangements are made locally through the Department of Foreign Affairs who periodically seek reimbursement of the relevant costs from this Department but do not supply details such as make and model of the vehicle or the name of the rental company.

The costs reimbursed to the Department of Foreign Affairs in 2020 was €3,154, €3,710 in 2021, €14,529 in 2022 and €2,584 to date in 2023.

2020

2021

2022

2023 to date