Leinster House reception, purchase of flags and plants, and a €147 Domino’s Pizza bill feature in Oireachtas, OPW and local authorities spending on US president’s official trip
This includes €6,697 on a canapé reception hosted by Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl in the members’ restaurant following Mr Biden’s speech.Maxwell Photography was hired for €3,579 and the cost of services and mobile TV broadcast equipment provided by a company called TVM came to €25,009.
The OPW spent €65,584 including staff overtime costs of €17,203 as Mr Biden visited a number of its sites. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar hosted a banquet for Mr Biden at Dublin Castle which got a spring clean with “cleaning at height” costing €11,554 and €1,475 spent on cleaning the rug in the Apollo Room.Louth County Council spent some €41,000 with Mr Biden visiting Carlingford Castle and Dundalk.The council commissioned Garrett Mallon Design House in Carlingford to make cufflinks for Mr Biden.
The design was called Cloicin . Garrett Mallon posted on Facebook at the time that his inspiration came from “the stoney shores of Carlingford Lough where the president’s ancestors left so many years ago”. The silver-and-gold cufflinks cost €350. Signage, PR services, website consultancy and “crowd safety advisory services” provided by four different companies came to a combined €26,300. Spending on USA flags and bunting was €1,565 across two suppliers.
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