Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

The communications unit is not a public relations body, it is simply an internal arrangement for transmitting information across Departments from within the internal workings of the Government. As the Deputy knows, the question of public relations concerns outside advice being obtained from external companies for the purpose of communicating various initiatives at Government level or within Departments. They are the arrangements to which the subheads refer.

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