Biden in Ireland: Garda security operation cost tops €31m including overtime, accommodation and CCTV

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Biden in Ireland: Garda security operation cost tops €31m including overtime, accommodation and CCTV
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The records show more than €7,900 was spent on “vehicle towing” and horse box hire cost €6,519. Over €8,700 was spent on Ballygowan water, the cost of portaloos came to €4,100, while €754 was spent on insect repellent.

Details of Garda expenditure on the Biden visit were released following a Freedom of Information request. The records set out overtime costs for Garda members of €22.01 million and overtime costs for civilian staff of €130,000.

Other costs, including accommodation, refreshments, vehicle hire and “incidentals”, came to €2.3 million. He visited the capital on Thursday, April 13th, where he addressed the Houses of the Oireachtas and also attended a banquet in his honour in Dublin Castle. The following day saw him travel to to Mayo – another ancestral home – where, among other engagements, he addressed a crowd of around 20,000 in Ballina before leaving Ireland to return to the US later that evening.

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