Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 6 October 2009
718 Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of experts’ and consultants’ reports his Department commissioned during 2008; the cost of each report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33904/09]
View answerI can inform the Deputy that research and reports which informed public policy proposals and development in areas such as Forensic Science, Youth Justice, Integration of Immigrants, Victims of Crime, European Arrest Warrants and so forth were commissioned by my Department in 2008. Nine such reports were commissioned in 2008 at costs varying from approximately €3,600 to €47,000.
