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Tuesday 3 July 2007

IRELAND: Courts body to fork out €2m on interpreters as demand rises

THE Courts Service will spend €2m on interpreters this year - 20 times more than it spent in 2000.


The contract for interpretation services now covers hundreds of different languages as diverse as Vietnamese, Turkish and Swahili, and the total payout has jumped from €103,000 in 2000 to €1.25m two years ago to €2m this year.

Monday 2 July 2007
Irish Independent

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