Written answers
Tuesday, 11 December 2007
Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
Consultancy Contracts
9:00 pm
Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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Question 947: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number, cost and name of any media consultants employed by his Department; the cost of such advice for each year since 1997 to date in 2007; the nature of the work done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33553/07]
John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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The information requested in the Question is set out in the table. The firms were generally employed to promote awareness of important issues relating to my Department's functions and in these cases the greater portion of the costs were incurred in buying media time.
Work Done | Consultant | Cost | Date |
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Advertising associated with the Register of Electors including the Publicity campaign for Draft Register of Electors — 1998/1999 | Saatchi & Saatchi | 78,441 | 1997 |
Cohesion Fund Publicity Project: monitoring and management of activities by local authorities in relation to fulfilment of publicity and information requirements under Cohesion Fund Regulations | Bill O'Herlihy Communications Group | 53,645 | 1997 |
Cohesion Fund Publicity Project | Boyle Design Group | 21,620 | 1997 |
Cohesion Fund Publicity Project | O'Herlihy Group | 44,492 | 1998 |
Provision of advice and assistance in the arrangements relating to the publication of the new Local Government Funding System | Drury Communications | 8,799 | 1998 |
Christmas Recycling Campaign 1998 | Brindley Advertising Ltd. | 60,159 | 1999 |
Cohesion Fund Publicity Project | Carr Communications | 175,833 | 1999-2000 |
Environment Awareness Campaign | Drury Communications | 1,147,370 | 1999-2000 |
Continuation of Environment Awareness Campaign (new contract) | Drury Communications | 359,777 | 2000 |
Communications campaign for the National Spatial Strategy | Drury Communications | 13,326 | 2000 |
Consultancy services: environment awareness campaign | Irish International OMD/ Drury Communications | 1,236,583 | 2001 |
Development of anti-litter cinema advertisement | Drury Communications | 44,100 | 2001 |
Anti-litter awareness advertisement | Irish International OMD | 81,262 | 2001 |
Publicity campaign for draft register of electors — 2002/2003 | Irish International OMD | 151,369 | 2001 |
Communications consultancy in relation to the national spatial strategy | Drury Communications | 383,557 | 2001 |
Cohesion fund publicity project | Carr Communications Ltd. | 83,737 | 2001 |
Anti-litter awareness advertisement | Irish International/OMD | 135,249 | 2002 |
Advertising campaign for plastic bag levy | Irish International OMD | 153,728 | 2002 |
Advertising campaign to publicise the supplementary register used for referendum on the Protection of Human Life in Pregnancy, general election 2002 and referendum on the Treaty of Nice | Brindley Advertising Ltd. | 117,885 | 2002 |
Cohesion fund publicity project | Carr Communications Ltd | 5,337 | 2002 |
Communication consultancy | Monica Leech Communications | 47,197 | 2002 |
Communications consultancy in relation to the National spatial strategy | Drury Communications | 115,128 | 2002 |
Environment awareness campaign | Drury Communications | 648,460 | 2002 |
Production of advertisements instructing the public on how to use electronic voting machine | Brindley Advertising Ltd. | 20,173 | 2002 |
Publicity campaign for introduction of plastic bags levy | Drury Communications | 61,525 | 2002 |
Publicity campaign for the draft Register of Electors- 2003/2004 | Brindley Advertising Ltd. | 99,999 | 2002 |
Publicity work on promotion of electronic voting including road show. | Carr Communications Ltd. | 133,044 | 2002 |
Communication consultancy | Monica Leech Communications | 135,036 | 2003 |
Communications consultancy in relation to the National Spatial Strategy | Drury Communications | 97,635 | 2003 |
Electronic voting awareness campaign | McConnells Advertising service Ltd/q4 public relations | 3,315,049 | 2003 |
Management of National Inventory of Architectural Heritage Awareness campaign | Hunter Red Cell | 301,895 | 2003-2005 |
Publicity campaign for the draft Register of Electors — 2004/2005 | Cawley NEA Ltd. | 159,607 | 2003 |
Race against Waste — PR Element | Lyle Bailey (Mary Murphy Associates) | 145,200 | 2003-2004 |
Communication consultancy | Monica Leech Communications | 139,392 | 2004 |
Production of advertisements regarding the Register of Electors | Brindley Advertising Ltd. | 38,017 | 2004 |
Publicity campaign for the draft Register of Electors- 2005/2006 | McConnells Advertising Service Ltd | 158,758 | 2004 |
Race against Waste — PR Element | Lyle Bailey (Mary Murphy Associates) | 320,166 | 2004 –2005 |
Media support for the launch of the Burren LIFE Project | Ann Jones | 423 | 2005 |
Publicity campaign for the draft Register of Electors– 2006/2007 | Bloom | 155,696 | 2005 |
Race against Waste — PR Element | Lyle Bailey (Mary Murphy Associates) | 344,850 | 2005-2006 |
Short term communications consultancy regarding emergency planning | Grayling Ltd | 4,840 | 2006 |
Draft Register of Electors 2008/2009 Awareness Campaign | Brindley Advertising, 17 Upper Mount St,Dublin 2 | 136,983 | 2007 |
Communications and public awareness campaign for National Climate Change Strategy | Cawley NEA/TBWA | 12,500,000 | 2007 |
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