Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

What is the status of the development of the brand "The Government of Ireland" to which a great deal of money was allocated in the previous communications programme? How is it attached to the activities of the Government? I hear on broadcast media regular advertisements for a consultation or an event, involving, for example, people who have been in mother and baby homes and asking them to register for such a meeting. The branding for that is not, as one might have thought, the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. It is the Government of Ireland. Who is paying for that advertising? Is it coming out of the money already allocated to the Department of the Taoiseach or is it from the Department of Children and Youth Affairs although under the brand of the Government of Ireland? It is important for people when public announcements are made at some cost to be able to follow who exactly is inviting them to what. It seems the Government of Ireland is inviting them to something but it is not very specific.

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