Paul McGrath (Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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Question 509: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department makes the Irish national daily newspapers available on-line for staff within her Department; the number of staff at each grade who each day receive a copy of one Irish daily newspaper which is also available on-line; the number of staff who each day receive a copy of more than one newspaper which is also available on-line; the cost in 2005 of purchases of each printed daily newspaper in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16448/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Irish national daily newspapers are not in general made available on-line to staff in my Department. The following is the distribution in respect of those who receive one daily newspaper: Minister, Minister of State and Advisers: 4; Secretary General, Assistant Secretaries General or equivalent: 7; Principal Officers or equivalent: 34; Assistant Principal Officers or equivalent: 79; Inspectors or equivalent: 47; and, Higher Executive Officers or equivalent: 23. Of these Personnel, 50 receive more than one newspaper. The cost in 2005 of purchasing printed daily newspapers was €85,788. My Department is currently investigating the feasibility of electronic on-line access.