John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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Question 404: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide details of the total expenditure by his Department on providing services through the Irish language in each of the past five years. [31624/12]

Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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My Department spent €77,000 approximately in translation and interpretation costs over the past five years broken down as follows: 2007: €27,295; 2008: €17,768; 2009: €9,646 ; 2010: €16,790 ; 2011: €5,514. In addition there would have been an element of expenditure related to Irish language requirements across a range of expenditure areas e.g. salaries, printing of reports and statutory instruments, maintenance of website, etc. that is not broken down separately.