Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance)
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476. To ask the Minister for Defence the costs to his Department to process and respond to a priority, an oral and a written parliamentary question. [16588/14]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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The preparation of replies to Parliamentary Questions is an integral part of my Department’s business. It is not possible to separate out the cost of answering Parliamentary Questions from overall administration costs. Approximately 920 Parliamentary Questions were tabled for answer by my Department in 2013.