Written answers
Tuesday, 8 November 2005
Department of Foreign Affairs
Irish Language
8:00 pm
John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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Question 382: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the expenditure by his Department on providing services through the Irish language in each of the years 2002, 2003 and 2004; and the breakdown of the expenditure under training, translation, advertising, bilingual signage and other. [32472/05]
Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table.
| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | |
| â'¬ | â'¬ | â'¬ | |
| Training | 2,643.36 | 3,308.36 | 4,781.11 |
| Translation | 7,751.69 | 192,664.91 | 43,616.98 |
| Advertising | 20,718.51 | 23,996.70 | 111,470.40 |
| Bilingual Signage | 4,367.00 | 167.98 | 247.43 |
| Other: Printing of Passport Forms | 161,738.15 | 156,979.35 | 168,667.39 |
| Other: Printing of material relating to the Nice Treaty | 21,679.00 | ||
| Other: Printing of Development Co-operation Ireland (DCI) material | 21,243.32 | ||
| Total | 218,897.71 | 377,117.30 | 350,026.63 |
The Deputy will wish to note that translation costs in 2003 and 2004 include expenditure on translations relating to the Presidency of the European Union, particularly the Presidency website.
The increase in advertising expenditure in 2004 was due to a number of changes in the passport application process which had to be notified to the public.
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