Conor Sheehan (Limerick City, Labour)
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91. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount spent by his Department and State bodies under its aegis on travel and subsistence in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42465/25]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is responsible for two Votes - Vote 27 (International Cooperation) and Vote 28 (Foreign Affairs and Trade). There are no agencies under the aegis the Department.

My Department complies with the guidelines and circulars issued by the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitisation on official travel. The central aim of 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 travel and subsistence costs across both Votes from 1 January 2021 to the end of June 2025 are detailed below: