Parliamentary Questions Costs

Tuesday, 8 April 2014

Questions (658)

Joan Collins

Question:

658. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the costs to his Department to process and respond to a priority, an oral and a written parliamentary question. [16593/14]

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Written answers

In 2011, an analysis of Parliamentary Affairs business processes in my Department was co-ordinated by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. This included an estimation of the average cost of responding to Oral (including Priority) and Written Parliamentary Questions. These were indicative estimates based on survey responses from staff in my Department. They do not include any costs relating to, say, stationery, nor do they include any estimates of costs relating to input to responses from the Health Service Executive. They are set out in the table below.

Process	Average Cost based on 2011 figures
Written PQs	€ 77
Oral PQs	€741