Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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Question 573: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the average time for payment to be made by his Department and by each agency affiliated to his Department to outside contractors for goods and services employed for each of the years 2004 to 2007 and to date in 2008 in tabular readable form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17377/08]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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My Department receives in excess of 40,000 valid invoices for payment each year from contractors and suppliers. The average time taken to make payments on foot of these invoices in each of the years in question is set out in the following table. My Department does not compile or hold these data for bodies under the aegis of the Department.