Costs of Embassies and Diplomatic Missions
The Minister said overall maintenance costs are listed in the Estimates and that individual embassy costs are also shown there, in the Foreign Affairs and Public Works votes.
asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the annual overall and individual cost of maintaining our embassies and diplomatic missions abroad.
Comment on this
Costs in relation to maintaining our embassies and diplomatic missions abroad are given in the Book of Estimates for the Public Services for the year 1982 in pages 182 and 183 in respect of expenditure from the Vote for Foreign Affairs and in pages 28 and 29 in respect of expenditure from the Vote for Public Works and Buildings.
Comment on this
I appreciate that the overall costs are included in the Book of Estimates, but I suspect that what Deputy Deasy is looking for and what I would like to see is the individual cost of maintaining our embassies and diplomatic missions abroad. Could I ask the Minister to circulate to the Deputies the breakdown of the costs?