Mary Lou McDonald
Question:78. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Finance when a reply will issue to Parliamentary Question No. 96 of 17 October 2012. [4779/13]
View answerWednesday, 30 January 2013
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The reply to this parliamentary question issued from my office today. As I indicated to the Deputy in my response to parliamentary question number 2018/13, several factors contributed to the delay in replying to this parliamentary question. The scope of the question, both in terms of the number of calendar years included in the request, the inclusion of bodies and state agencies under the remit of my Department, and the level of data requested for each item, meant that the compilation of the data in order to provide a full response to the questions was time-consuming and voluminous. Furthermore, the questions were received at a time when staff responsible for compiling the data for their respective Offices were also heavily involved in the Estimates process and subsequently the year end process. These questions were not therefore simply confined to information in relation to my Department. Had this been the case a reply would have been available immediately.