25,000 paper copies of Flood report available

Further orders for the Second Interim Report of the Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Payments - the Flood…

Further orders for the Second Interim Report of the Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Payments - the Flood Report - are not being accepted by the Government Publications Office.

"The number of paper copies of the report being made available is 25,000, which will be sufficient to meet the numbers already sold or currently on order," said a spokeswoman for the publications office last night.

This would include "a limited number of additional paper copies to be placed for sale" in the publications office's Molesworth Street outlet, "probably on Friday". In the meantime, new orders are not being accepted.

Apart from Molesworth Street, the report is available through the office's postal trade service, which caters for bulk orders from bookshops as well as individual orders from members of the public.

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Orders for credit card holders are being taken by telephone.

The Government Publications Office is a section of the Office of Public Works, and "acts as an agent for the Flood tribunal" in relation to the printing and sale of its reports.

The current report, which costs the tribunal €12 per copy to print, is being sold for €1.

Some 2,000 CD-ROM copies of the report, also at €1, were made available - with more than 1,500 copies sold by yesterday afternoon, mainly by mail order.

It is understood the tribunal website has had more than 40,000 hits since the report's publication last week.

The full report is also available on ireland.com, The Irish Times's website, where it is extremely popular.