John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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Question 498: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform 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. [32478/05]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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The costs of providing services through Irish are met from my Department's administrative budget and cannot be readily distinguished from the cost of providing services generally. Accordingly, the information sought by the Deputy could not be compiled without the application of a disproportionate amount of staff time and resources.