Department of Social Protection spends €5.5m on interpretation costs in 19 months

Guidelines for welfare staff said they  should try to ensure they had a “quiet, private setting” and that notes of the conversation should be taken. File photo

The Department of Social Protection has run up a bill of more than €5.5m on interpretation costs in little over a year and a half.

Costs for 2022 were just over €3.2m but the final tab for this year looks likely to exceed that and was already €2.32m by the end of July.