Written answers
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Departmental Expenditure
Kevin Humphreys (Dublin South East, Labour)
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177. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide, in tabular form, the total cost of providing interpreters for the Labour Relations Commission, per year, from 2007 to the recent year most readily available; and if he will provide in tabular form the representative bodies or persons with the highest number of requests for the provision of said services. [28918/13]
Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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The Labour Relations Commission (LRC) is an independent statutory body under the aegis of my Department. As an independent quasi-judicial body, I have no role in the day-to-day exercise of its functions.
I am informed that the total cost of providing interpreters for the Labour Relations Commission, per year, from 2007 to 2012 was as set out in the table below.
Year | Cost (€) |
---|---|
2007 | 807.13 |
2008 | 1,428.39 |
2009 | 226.06 |
2010 | 1,490.48 |
2011 | 7,217.22 |
2012 | 8,762.06 |
Total | 19,931.34 |
I am informed that the representative bodies or persons with the highest number of requests for the provision of interpretation service at the Labour Relations Commission from 2007 to 2012 were as set out in the table below.
Year | Richard Grogan & Associates | SIPTU | Independent Workers Union |
---|---|---|---|
2007 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
2008 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
2009 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
2010 | 9 | 2 | 8 |
2011 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
2012 | 11 | 3 | 2 |
Total | 34 | 9 | 10 |
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