Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 304: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the amount which was spent in his Department for the years 2005 and from January 2006 to date for media purposes or advertising; where the money was spent, that is, national papers, provincial papers, RTÉ radio, local radios and so on; the amounts spent on a yearly basis for years of the pervious three years; if money was spent on videos, for promotional, educational or advertising purposes. [27960/06]

Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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Advertising by my Department is the subject of a draw-down contract which is put out to tender on a regular basis by the Government Supplies Agency (GSA). The Department's advertising is placed under the GSA contract with the selected advertising agency, except for recruitment notices, which are placed through the Public Appointments Service and certain other advertisements, which go through the Office of Public Works or the Government Publications Office.

The table below shows the total amounts spent on advertising each year on behalf of my Department. It has not proved possible to provide a breakdown between individual newspapers in which the advertisements appeared. There has been no expenditure on radio or TV advertising. My Department has spent €53,229 to date on a promotional and training DVD which is still in preparation and is not included in the table.