Brian O'Shea (Waterford, Labour)
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Question 307: To ask the Minister for Finance the documents including his speech relating to Budget 2006 that were translated into Irish; the cost involved; the number of these Irish translations that were sold; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35745/06]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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In accordance with the requirements of the Official Languages Act, the following Budget 2006 documents were published in Irish:

Summary of Budget Measures; and

Estimates of Receipts and Expenditure for the year ending 31 December 2006.

These documents are available in hard copy and on the Budget website at www.budget.gov.ie. My Department also produced an Irish version of the Budget Summary Leaflet, available in hard copy. The cost of the outside translation work for Budget 2006 was €3,875.13. This sum does not include translation related work carried out by staff in my Department. I am informed by the Government Publications Sales Office that no copies of the documents available in hard copy, i.e. the Summary of Budget Measures and the Estimates of Receipts and Expenditure for the year ending 31 December 2006 have been sold to date.