John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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Question 207: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount of interest paid to suppliers by his Department under the prompt payment system in each of the past five years; the persons who were the top three beneficiaries in each year; and the amount they received. [22453/08]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The amounts of interest paid under the Prompt Payment of Accounts Act, 1997 by my Department during the last five years were as follows, €4,850.59 (2003); €7,415.53 (2004); €10,341.70 (2005); €35,844.93 (2006); €65,777.59 (2007). I would like to add that the total interest paid during this five year period amounted to €124,230 which represents 0.01% of €1,376,881,787 being the total value of all payments made by my Department for goods and services during the same period. The three highest interest payments made to a single beneficiary during each of the past five years are set out in the following table.