Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 754: To ask the Minister for Social and Family 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. [1988/08]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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It is assumed that the Deputy is referring to external media monitoring services. The cost of external media monitoring services to the Department of Social and Family Affairs for the years 2002 to 2007 is as follows:

Most of the task of monitoring media coverage of social welfare issues was carried out directly by the staff within the Department up to September 2005. The cost of this in-house service was estimated at about €46,000 per annum in 2005.