Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister's answer raises the question as to why an expense has been incurred in contracting in external companies. If we look at the social media output of the Department in November, Instagram had four posts, Twitter had 15 tweets, 11 retweets and one comment, six replies to tweets and seven retweets. There were five posts on Facebook from original content and two posts highlighting articles. That is a small number of posts and a low level of activity for one month. I have no doubt that a professional level of skill is needed for creating online content. I have my own Twitter and Facebook accounts. The Department should undertake these activities in-house and should not need outside companies. I ask the Minister to comment.

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