204 Deputy John Perry asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the extent to which the practice of the Refugee Appeals Tribunal of scheduling appeal hearings at hourly intervals daily — that is, at 9.30 a.m., 10.30 a.m., 11.30 a.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. — is causing wastage of taxpayers’ money, insofar as interpreters and legal representatives who are in attendance at the aforementioned times for such scheduled appeal hearings have to wait in some cases for hours for their appeal hearings to commence and in more cases for the appeal hearings to be adjourned completely, due to the close scheduling of the appeal hearings resulting in previous hearings over running; for the period 1 January, 2010 to 31 October, 2010, the number of appeal hearings that were late starting due to the over running of previous appeal hearings; the amount of time each such appeal was late commencing; the additional cost of interpreters for each such time delay; the number of appeal hearings that had to be completely adjourned by reason of time constraints due to this over-cheduling; the amount of the additional costs to the taxpayer due to the need for those involved to re-attend on new hearing dates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46488/10]

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204 Deputy John Perry asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the extent to which the practice of the Refugee Appeals Tribunal of scheduling appeal hearings at hourly intervals daily — that is, at 9.30 a.m., 10.30 a.m., 11.30 a.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. — is causing wastage of taxpayers’ money, insofar as interpreters and legal representatives who are in attendance at the aforementioned times for such scheduled appeal hearings have to wait in some cases for hours for their appeal hearings to commence and in more cases for the appeal hearings to be adjourned completely, due to the close scheduling of the appeal hearings resulting in previous hearings over running; for the period 1 January, 2010 to 31 October, 2010, the number of appeal hearings that were late starting due to the over running of previous appeal hearings; the amount of time each such appeal was late commencing; the additional cost of interpreters for each such time delay; the number of appeal hearings that had to be completely adjourned by reason of time constraints due to this over-cheduling; the amount of the additional costs to the taxpayer due to the need for those involved to re-attend on new hearing dates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46488/10]

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