Vol. 436 No. 7
105 Dr. Upton asked the Minister for Finance the total number of representations received by his Department since the formation of the Government from Members of the Oireachtas and the general public respectively; and the cost of dealing with these representations.
My Department does not compile, as a matter of course, general statistics of this nature. It is considered neither appropriate nor efficient to do so.
To answer the Deputy's question would require an inordinate amount of time and effort by the staff in my Department, which I do not believe is justified.
