Charlie O'Connor (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 702: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the average cost to his Department of answering a parliamentary question. [3862/08]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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Parliamentary questions are dealt with by staff in the line sections responsible for the particular issues raised in the questions. The number and level of staff, and time spent, on an individual draft reply depends on a number of factors including the complexity of the issues raised in the question, the volume and accessibility of information required for the proposed reply and the form of the proposed reply, i.e. whether oral or written. As no record is kept of the time taken by Departmental officials in formulating draft replies, it is not possible to indicate the total administrative cost involved.