Written answers
Wednesday, 1 February 2006
Department of Finance
Consultancy Contracts
9:00 pm
Paul McGrath (Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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Question 235: To ask the Minister for Finance the public relations contracts continuing, completed and initiated during 2005; the project involved in each of those contracts; the name and address of the company involved; and the value of those contracts. [3585/06]
Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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My Department had two public relations, PR, contracts which continued into 2005. No such contracts were initiated in 2005, and none was completed in that year.
The following table sets out the year of the awarding of each contract, a description of the purpose of the contract, the name and address of the organisation with which my Department contracted, the total value of the contract and some additional information.
| Year of award of contract | Description of PR contract, including the project involved | Name and address of the PR service-provider | Total value of PR contract | Additional information |
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| 2004 | Part of a marketing contract for the etenders website, www.etenders.gov.ie, awarded to a consortium and including an element of PR provided by one of the parties. | The Media Group 43 Mount Merrion Avenue Blackrock County Dublin | €80,000 (estimated for the Media Group's role in the consortium). | The PR service provided is an element of a larger marketing contract with a consortium that includes the Media Group, PR, Ogilvy and Mather, print and broadcast advertising, and Elucidate, on-line advertising and production of an electronic magazine. The total value of the two-year marketing contract for 2004-06 is €363,000. |
| 2003 | Provision of publicity services for the NDP-CSF information office. | Grayling 3-4 Merrion Place Dublin 2 | 409,000 | The total value of the contract is the estimated total cost to the end of the contract in April 2006. The figure does not include third-party costs for advertising, photography etc., which amount to €193,000 to date. |
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