Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance)
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346. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the cost to his Department to process and respond to priority, oral and a written parliamentary questions. [16587/14]

Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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The total number of Parliamentary Questions answered by my Department during 2013 is as follows:Oral (incl Priority) 316 Written 1204. It is not possible to isolate the administrative cost of processing PQs from the overall administrative costs of my Department as processing of PQs is carried out as part of the normal day-to-day work of Divisions. By their nature, however, there is generally a higher administrative overhead in dealing with oral questions, including priority questions, than there is in dealing with written questions.