John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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Question 240: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the expenditure by her Department on providing services through the Irish language in each of 2002, 2003 and 2004; and the breakdown of the expenditure under training, translation, advertising, bilingual signage and other. [32469/05]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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This Department has not separately accounted for expenditure related to providing services through the Irish language from 2002 to 2004 so the information sought is not directly available. However, information on training in respect of the Irish language for those years is as follows: 2002, €533; 2003, €990; and 2004, €720. The total cost of translation services from English to Irish between 1 January 2004 and 30 November 2004 in my Department was €27,432, excluding VAT.

My Department has provided detailed information in respect of translation and advertising costs for 2005, the first year such accounts have been compiled.