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Departmental Expenditure

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 23 September 2025

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Questions (423)

Aidan Farrelly

Question:

423. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount of expenditure on off-site storage solutions for the past five years to date; if he will provide a breakdown of items (details supplied) not stored in his Department on annual basis. [50500/25]

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My department uses off-site storage facilities for the purposes of records management services only. The list below provides the breakdown of expenditure by company for the period 2020 to 2025.

In addition to storage, the costs provided in the list below includes other records management services such as file retrievals, collection and delivery, materials and scanning.

2020

Company

Cost

Iron Mountain

Kefron

Glenbeigh

RSS

Mid Freight Shipping Ltd.

Barons Self Storage

€22,357.41

€ 671.60

€74,780.53

€ 8,292.37

€ 292.74

€ 5,228.83

2021

Company

Cost

Iron Mountain

Kefron

Glenbeigh

RSS

Mid Freight Shipping Ltd.

Barons Self Storage

€ 34,929.29

€ 747.03

€103,115.41

€ 5,777.61

€ 13,850.93

€ 2,624.64

2022

Company

Cost

Iron Mountain

Kefron

Glenbeigh

RSS

Oasis

Mid Freight Shipping Ltd.

€22,093.66

€ 748.09

€55,743.73

€20,064.16

€14,340.50

€ 153.75

2023

Company

Cost

Iron Mountain

Kefron

Glenbeigh

RSS

Oasis

Mid Freight Shipping Ltd

€173,633.37

€ 668.23

€ 32,656.04

€ 31,792.02

€ 27,146.44

€ 17.22

2024

Company

Cost

Iron Mountain

Kefron

Glenbeigh

RSS

Oasis

€248,316.26

€ 1,202.17

€ 120.34

€ 46,872.48

€ 20,560.76

2025

Company

Cost

Iron Mountain

Kefron

Glenbeigh

RSS

Oasis

€190,906.03

€ 1,047.61

€ 112.18

€ 21,671.35

€ 10,135.22

Total Cost for the period 2020 to 2025: €1,192,670.00

I trust this information clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

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