Government spent €1.3m on phones

It cost €1.3m to buy new mobile phones for top civil servants and ministerial advisers since 2017, it can be revealed.

Government spent €1.3m on phones
Tue, 07 Jan, 2020 - 05:50
Daniel McConnell

It cost €1.3m to buy new mobile phones for top civil servants and ministerial advisers since 2017, it can be revealed.

Across all departments, figures show that the Government has spent €1,290,267.35 on work-related phones for top spin doctors and officials over the past three years.

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