Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 597: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount spent by his Department on media monitoring or press cutting services for each of the years 2002 to 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1985/08]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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Media monitoring in my Department is primarily aimed at keeping our Embassies and Consulates abroad informed of all major news stories in the Irish Media and of stories of Irish interest in the international media. The figures below show the yearly cost to the Department of Foreign Affairs from 2002 to 2007 of providing a daily summary of the major Irish news outlets, which is circulated throughout the Department and to all our missions abroad.

Press cutting services are carried out in house by staff in the Department's Press Section.