Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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Question 37: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount which has been spent on the Barron investigation from 14 October 1996 to date, including investigations (details supplied) and medical costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21573/05]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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Investigations are undertaken as part of normal duties. Therefore the multitude of different costs incurred by the inquiry into the death of Mr. Barron and by the related investigations referred to by the Deputies were accounted for in the normal manner under the relevant general sub-heads of the Votes concerned. For this reason it would not be possible to retrospectively cost the named investigations without the reallocation of scarce resources on a scale that would be impractical.