Charlie O'Connor (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 322: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the average cost to her Department of answering a parliamentary question. [3865/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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As the processing of Parliamentary Questions is undertaken as part of the normal day to day work of individual sections within the Department, it is not possible to isolate the administration costs of processing Parliamentary Questions from the overall administrative costs of the Department. For the Deputy's information, in 2007 the Ministers of State and I answered a total of 4,849 Parliamentary Questions with the corresponding number in 2006 being 5,991.