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Departmental Expenditure.

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 24 March 2010

Wednesday, 24 March 2010

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Róisín Shortall

Ceist:

113 Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Health and Children the arrangements that are in place for the contracting of interpretation services; if it is the case that travel time to and from the place at which interpretation is needed is remunerated at the same rate as the time spent interpreting; the arrangements that are in place to reduce such costs by recruiting locally; the name and location of each interpreting company contracted by the Health Service Executive in the past three years with a breakdown of the amount each was remunerated in each of these years by the HSE; the number of interpreting hours delivered by each of the companies in each of the years; the number of interpreting hours billed by each of the companies in each of the years. [13213/10]

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Freagraí scríofa

I regret that due to industrial action I am not in a position to provide a substantive response to your Parliamentary Question. If this matter remains of continuing concern to you, however, I would invite you to raise it with me again in due course.

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