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Thu 05 May 2011Questions from TDs cost up to €166,000 per day
GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS are spending up to €166,000 a day responding to an unprecedented numbers of parliamentary questions (PQs) from members of the new Dáil.
TDs asked 833 questions on a single day last week, the highest number so far this year. It is not clear whether last Tuesday’s tally is a record.
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