Written answers
Tuesday, 11 December 2007
Department of Finance
Departmental Expenditure
9:00 pm
Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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Question 168: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number and name of newspapers purchased by his Department daily and weekly; the number provided to himself and to the Minister of State's office; the yearly cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33524/07]
Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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The cost of newspapers purchased by my Department in 2006 was €77,050 and to date in 2007 was €76,907. The table sets out the number of each paper purchased on a daily and weekly basis for Departmental staff and papers supplied to my offices in Dublin and Tullamore and to the Minister of State's office.
| Daily and Weekly Newspapers supplied for Departmental Officials | No. of Copies |
| Irish Independent | 30 |
| Irish Times | 84 |
| Irish Examiner | 9 |
| Wall Street Journal | 2 |
| Financial Times | 41 |
| Evening Herald | 7 |
| The Guardian | 1 |
| Mirror | 1 |
| Star | 1 |
| Irish Daily Mail | 2 |
| The Sun | 1 |
| Lá | 1 |
| Herald Tribune | 1 |
| London Independent | 1 |
| Daily Telegraph | 1 |
| London Times | 1 |
| Farmers' Journal | 3 |
| Irish News | 1 |
| Sunday Papers | |
| Sunday Independent | 4 |
| Sunday Business Post | 5 |
| Sunday Tribune | 4 |
| Sunday World | 2 |
| Sunday Star | 1 |
| Sunday Telegraph | 1 |
| Sunday Times | 2 |
| Sunday Observer | 1 |
| Daily and weekly newspapers provided to Tánaiste's offices | No. of copies |
| Irish Independent | 2 |
| Irish Times | 2 |
| Irish Examiner | 2 |
| Sunday Independent | 1 |
| Sunday Tribune | 1 |
| Sunday Business Post | 1 |
| Sunday Times | 1 |
| Tullamore Tribune | 2 |
| Offaly Express | 2 |
| Offaly Weekly | 2 |
| Papers provided for the Minister of State's Office to June 2007* | No. of copies |
| Irish Independent | 1 |
| Irish Times | 1 |
| Irish Examiner | 1 |
| Irish Examiner | 1 |
| Evening Herald | 1 |
| *From this date newspapers supplied to the Minister of State were provided by the Office of Public Works. |
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