Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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Question 245: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost of running her Department's press office in each of the first three quarters of 2007 in tabular readable form. [31048/07]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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There are 5 Departmental staff in my Department's Press Office and I also have a special adviser in this area. The associated annual pay cost is €346,489 (cost for Departmental staff calculated on the mean of the scale). The estimated quarterly costs for mobile phones for the Press Office is €1,262. The costs for media monitoring for the first three quarters of 2007 were as follows:

January-March: €27,725.55

April-June: €19,258.78

July-September: €16,000.49.

The costs for information communications technology, heat and lighting are not recorded on an individual office basis in my Department.