Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 577: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the amount spent by his Department on opinion polling and focus group research in each of the years 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1178/11]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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In 2009 and last year a total of €800 was incurred by the Citizenship Division of my department into research on aspects of the process of applying for Irish Citizenship and related issues.

Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 578: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of mobile telephones paid for by public bodies under his remit in each of the years 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010; the total cost of paying mobile telephone bills in each of those years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1193/11]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I am not in a position to provide the information sought by the Deputy. As the Deputy may be aware there are approximately twenty four public bodies under the remit of my Department. This includes large nation wide organisations such as An Garda Síochána, the Courts Service and the Irish Prisons Service. To seek to obtain the information sought would require a disproportionate use of time and resources which cannot be justified at a time when there are numerous demands on the public bodies concerned.

Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 579: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of mobile telephones paid for by his Department in each of the years 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010; the total cost of paying mobile telephone bills in each of those years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1208/11]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I wish to inform the Deputy that it is not possible to provide the requested information for the years 2006, 2007 and 2008 as the data sought cannot be disaggregated from other data for the period in question.

For the period 2009 and 2010 the information sought was retained in a different format and is therefore available. The number of mobile phones paid for by my Department in 2009 was 163 and in 2010 it was 149. The total cost of paying for mobile phone bills in my Department in the years 2009 and 2010 is €74,522 and €66,108 respectively.