Gerald Nash (Louth, Labour)
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45. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total value of the annual mileage claims for each Minister of State assigned to his Department in 2023 and 2024, respectively; to provide a breakdown for each year of the individual claims; the annual cost of overnight allowances related to the civilian drivers of each relevant Minister of State in 2023 and 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3251/25]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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This Department is fully compliant with the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform guidelines and circulars on official travel and also operates its own detailed internal travel policy and regulations. The central aim of the Departmental travel policy is to minimise official travel costs and to achieve value for money for expenditure necessarily incurred, consistent with the effective discharge of official duties.

The amounts claimed by each Minister of State in the Department of Foreign Affairs in respect of mileage in 2023 and 2024 are set out below.

The amount of overnight subsistence claimed by all civilian drivers in 2023 and 2024 are set out below: