€300k per week spent on space agency fee

The state’s spend of €14m a year on a membership fee for the European Space Agency is “extraordinary”, claimed a member of the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee.

A total of €17m a year is spent by the Department of Enterprise on international membership subscriptions for different organisations, PAC heard yesterday.

A review of membership fees is under way by the department, its secretary general told the committee.