184. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the basis on which he reported that the 27 ministerial trips abroad for St. Patrick's Day yielded an immediate €5 million, as against a cost of more than €300,000; his views that the official trips of Ministers on business promotion trips abroad is financially justified, especially to countries which do very little trade with Ireland and have a very small number of Irish citizens resident in them; and if he will provide the full cost of any business promotion trips in 2015 in which he or other Ministers in his Department engaged. [15190/15]

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184. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the basis on which he reported that the 27 ministerial trips abroad for St. Patrick's Day yielded an immediate €5 million, as against a cost of more than €300,000; his views that the official trips of Ministers on business promotion trips abroad is financially justified, especially to countries which do very little trade with Ireland and have a very small number of Irish citizens resident in them; and if he will provide the full cost of any business promotion trips in 2015 in which he or other Ministers in his Department engaged. [15190/15]

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