Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We have been told that the strategic communications unit has been involved in developing a campaign around the proposed national children's hospital and how it might be sold to the people. When the hospital is open, the children who will need access to it will get there through professional channels. The public does not need to be enlightened on a project way into the future. However, where the Government has been light is in campaigns dealing with climate change and to have people change their behaviour which can improve our requirements under various climate change objectives or in how we dispose of waste. We have had little by way of public information or advertising communications in that regard.

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