Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 19 April 2012
158 Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Defence the amount of money that has been spent by the Ombudsman for the Defence Forces in preparing, publishing and printing its annual report in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 including design, consultancy and any associated costs; and the amount of this that was spent on producing the same report in the Irish language. [19587/12]
View answerThe following table provides a breakdown of the Annual Report printing and publishing costs in the years 2007 to 2010 by the Ombudsman for the Defence Forces.
|
Cost Items |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
|
Number of Reports |
2,000 |
1,500 |
1,600 |
1,800 |
|
Design |
€4,900.00 |
€5,850.00 |
€3,250.72 |
€4,000.00 |
|
Printing and Production |
€14,550.00 |
€18,035.00 |
€12,809.00 |
€13,160.00 |
|
Translation |
€2,060.00 |
€3,030.00 |
€3,855.07 |
€2,607.00 |
|
Project Management |
€3,920.40 |
€1,400.00 |
€0.00 |
€1,000.00 |
|
Editing, Compilation and Proof Reading |
€4,791.60 |
€8,784.00 |
€6,415.00 |
€9,425.90 * |
|
Sundry Costs (including couriers, photography etc.) |
€850.35 |
€1,140.40 |
€449.55 |
€1,095.50 |
|
Total Cost |
€31,072.35 |
€38,239.40 |
€26,779.34 |
€31,288.40 |
*Including Four Year Review of ODF.
The amount of outlay attributable to producing the ODF Annual Reports in the Irish language is as follows:
|
Cost Items |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
|
Cost of producing the Irish Version of the ODF Annual Report |
€11,785.00 |
€14,972.50 |
€11,884.93 |
€11,187.00 |
This cost is calculated based on half of the cost of ‘Design' and ‘Printing and Production' together with the full ‘Translation' cost.
